Wayanad (Kerela) [India], November 23 : BJP's Wayanad Lok Sabha candidate, Navya Haridas, on Saturday expressed her dismay over the current trends of the bye polls for the parliamentary constituency of Wayanad, where she has been trailing against the Congress candidate Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Haridas said that the BJP had done development-oriented campaigning for the by-elections; despite that, election turnout was very low, and the BJP was not able to reach the level that they had expected.
"While this counting started, we were having expectations because we approached the people by speaking only about the development of Wayanad. What we can do here... This development-oriented election campaign was being done during this election. We had hoped that people would be executing their minds accordingly for development. But unfortunately, the election turnout was very low. BJP couldn't reach the level that we expected," she said.
She claimed that in the last five years, there was no work done in any sector of the constituency and that the next five years will also be like that.
"In the last five years, if we see, no work was done in any sector. People of Wayanad have been longing for a medical college for decades, but that also was not implemented... Another five years will also be like that. Priyanka Vadra will also be in a visiting mode in Wayanad. So, in this campaign, we were asking the people to be with us. But we couldn't win this time," she said.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has contested the by-elections in the parliamentary constituency of Wayanad after the Congress leader and her brother Rahul Gandhi vacated the seat after winning the Rae Bareli constituency in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
As per the current trend, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has a total of 622338 votes and is leading with 410931 votes, while Haridas has been trailing by 512399.