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On Almora seat, the margin of defeat also remained almost same as it was in 2019. “The main reason of Congress defeat was popularity of Prime Minister Modi amongst beneficiaries of government scheme specially among women coupled with lacklustre campaign by a divided Congress party,” said Shekhar Dwivedi, a journalist based in Almora.<\/p>\n
It was a known fact that Congress party workers were not willing to work as evident from the fact that 8000 copies of \u2018Nyaya Patras\u2019 a manifesto of the party that were sent from Delhi remained packed in Congress office and were not distributed. Now the Congress leaders are ina\u00a0 quandary to dispose it off .”Had it reached voters in the villages it could have influenced the voters but Congress workers and leaders did not even did not care to distribute it in Almora,” said Shekhar.<\/p>\n
Political observers believe that Congress leaders specially in Uttarakhand always wanted to encash on the anti-incumbency of the ruling party and did not want to work at the grass root to strengthen their organisation. On the other hand RSS\/BJP with \u00a0rich resources are spread throughout with their RSS run Saraswati Shishu Mandir schools all over the state. “The Congress party as an opposition completely failed to convey their message to the masses,” said L.L. Verma, a retired professor of political science from Kumaon University.<\/p>\n
Verma was of the opinion that it would be an uphill task for Congress party to get organisational efficiency like that of BJP.” The so-called seasoned leadership of Congress party led by senior leaders Harish Rawat, Pritam Singh and Yashpal Arya completely failed to enthuse the party workers and voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Same old story of 2019 repeated in Lok Sabha polls of 2024 in Kumaon B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, June 5 It was the same old story again in the Lok Sabha election results of two seats from \u00a0Kumaon region of Uttarakhand. Even the defeat margin of the rival candidate against ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) remain the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,1284,91,56,59],"tags":[2154,1746,1940,192,2153,1613,1974,324,124,1049,2015],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-politics","category-uttarakhand","tag-ajay-bhatt","tag-ajay-tamta","tag-almora-lok-sabha-seat","tag-harish-rawat","tag-nainital-us-nagar-lok-sabha-seat","tag-pradeep-tamta","tag-prakash-joshi","tag-pritam-singh","tag-uttarakhand-bjp","tag-uttarakhand-congress-party","tag-uttarakhand-lok-sabha-polls-2024"],"yoast_head":"\n