"The results could have been much better in both the bypolls. The BJP had been in a much better position. If you have to succeed, you have to build up mass movements based on issues that concerns the people," RSS prachar pramukh Jishnu Basu told PTI.
In a major boost for Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, which is facing the heat of Saradha scam, won in a big way the bypolls in Bongaon Lok Sabha and Krishnagunj Assembly constituencies yesterday and the BJP had to be contented with increased vote share.
Asked whether the BJP's decision to para-drop Subrata Thakur, son of a Trinamool minister, just days before the election as party candidate by sidelining old timers backfired, Basu evaded a categorical reply saying, "In politics its not about old and new, its about natural choice of the cadres and people".
Another RSS leader, who didn't wished to be named, said if needed the RSS will ask the BJP state unit to strengthen its party organisation.
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