Jagat Singh, son of former foreign minister, Natwar Singh, who contested the polls from Alwar’s Ramgarh constituency, came in a distant third after the counting ended on Thursday. He couldn’t play the third angle as was expected of him and the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP), the party he chose to represent, but he did wean away the poll results from the BJP and ensured that the Congress got a walkover in the by-polls.
Jagat Singh managed to bag more than 24,000 votes in the elections. The victory margin of the Congress candidate Shafia Zubair is little over 12,000 votes. Sources observing the elections said that Singh has eaten into the voter base of the BJP which was complacent. Had Singh not contested the polls, BJP would stand a fighting chance to even retain the seat it won in the last assembly elections in 2013.
