Bypoll results deserve introspection: BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday said that every election result is a lesson learnt and added that the party will try its best to perform better next time.

"We are not looking at this as a win or a loss. We tried our very best and fought. Bypolls also depend on local issues and every election result is a message and a lesson learnt. We will perform better the next time," said Naqvi.

Meanwhile, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that the party was going to take the results as a challenge.

"By polls took place at many places today and the BJP has accepted the results and is going to take it as a challenge. The results deserve a small introspection by the party and this is going to be a wakeup call for us but we are sure of forming a government in Maharashtra and Haryana," Rudy said.

With the counting for the by-poll results in 33 constituencies across 10 states taking place today, a trend emerged where the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led wave for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), that was so successful in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, failed to live to its hype.

In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) managed to make huge inroads into a state that had been hit by riots last year. Despite aggressive campaigning by the BJP, especially by its Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath, the BJP could only bag two of the nine seats in UP.

In Rajasthan, the Congress bagged three of the four seats which went to the polls, with the BJP winning the lone South Kota seat. Congress leader Sachin Pilot termed his party's performance as 'spectacular'.

In Gujarat, the Congress managed to win two seats, while the BJP won seven out of the nine seats.

However, BJP's biggest gain came in West Bengal, where the party made inroads into the state for the first time in the legislative assembly, winning the Basirhat Dakshin seat.