jaipur by recapturing sardarshahar assembly seat on thursday the ruling congress in rajasthan has maintained its stronghold in the bypolls held in the state in the last four years of the eight assembly bypolls held since january 2019 congress has won six while bjp and rlp rashtriya loktantrik party have been able to pocket just one eachthe congress not only snatched away two seatsmandawa jhunjhunu and dhariawad pratapgarhfrom its archrival bjp but also improved its victory margin on the other four seatssujangarh sahara vallabhnagar and sardarshaharthat it retained in the bypolls even while losing khinwsar nagaur to rlp in 2019 bypoll and rajsamand to bjp in 2021 bypoll the congress improved its voting percentage on both seats by more than 11 and 5 per cent respectively in the two bypolls prior to that of sardarshahar bjp finished fourth vallabhnagar and third dhariawad in every bypoll the voting percentage has increased in favour of congress this is an endorsement of congress governments good governance and welfare schemes in sectors like education health and social security said rtdc chairman dharmendra rathore who monitored all eight bypolls for the congressvictory in sardarshahar has added to the firepower of the ruling congress since this assembly constituency is part of the home district of deputy leader of opposition rajendra rathore and bjp state president satish poonia by giving a lead of more than 26000 votes to congress over bjp the regions residents have held up a mirror to both the senior bjp leaders who hail from churu district big mouths rathore and poonia had dared rahul gandhi to come to churu but even without our leader going there the people have given victory to congress and have shut up the bjp cabinet minister pratap singh khachariyawas said commenting on the bypoll resultas it enters the election year in a couple of days the sardarshahar bypoll result has boosted up the ruling congress at a time when it has been caught in the supremacy struggle of its two heavyweightschief minister ashok gehlot and his former deputy sachin pilot congress state president govind singh dotasra said our continuous victory in the bypolls has been a result of an accountable and sensitive government in the last four years the bypoll results should open up the eyes of bjp that talks of winning the 2023 state election dotasra said