While BJP won an impressive tally of 14 seats despite internal contradictions in the party, some of its stalwarts including Bardoli MP Prabhu Vsava were defeated in the recent elections to the Surat District Co-operative Bank (SDCB] reports Indian Express.
Results on three seats ended in a tie and later chits were drawn as a tie-breaker. Most of the seats saw a contest between BJP-supported candidates and the party’s rebel candidates.
The five seats like SDCB employees’ seat, Choryasi, Valod, Bardoli, and Olpad – were won by BJP candidates without elections.
In the Mandvi seat, BJP MP of Bardoli Prabhu Vasava lost to a rebel candidate Narendrasinh Kosada, by a small margin.
Commenting on the election results, Surat district BJP chief Sandeep Desai said ” During the last five years, we have increased the turnover of the bank to Rs 4,000 crore, and made 44 new branches. Four lakh new accounts have been opened during this term and we have 111 ATMs now, while it was just two five years back”.