The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate has lost in Banswara, Rajasthan, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during campaigning in April, made references to Muslims as ‘infiltrators’ and ‘those who have more children’.

During campaigning on April 21, PM Modi alleged that “The Congress if voted to power would distribute the country’s wealth to those who have more children.”

Addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara, PM Modi hit out at the Congress over its wealth redistribution survey promise in its manifesto and said that the party, if voted to power, would distribute the country’s wealth to “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”.

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“This ‘urban Naxal’ mindset, mothers and sisters, they will not even leave your ‘mangalsutra’. They can go to that level… The Congress manifesto says they will calculate the gold with mothers and sisters, get information about it, and then distribute that property. They will distribute it to whom – Manmohan Singh’s government had said Muslims have the first right on the country’s assets,” PM Modi said at the rally.

“Earlier, when their (Congress) government was in power, they had said that Muslims have the first right on the country’s assets. This means to whom will this property be distributed? It will be distributed among those who have more children. It will be distributed to the infiltrators. Should your hard-earned money go to the infiltrators? Do you approve of this?” he said.

The BJP’s candidate, Mahendrajeetsingh Malviya, lost to Rajkumar Roat of the Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP), by a margin of 2,47,054 votes, according to ECI data.

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This margin of victory is higher than what PM Modi could manage in his Varanasi seat, where he won by 1,52,513 votes.

In Rajasthan, where BJP had won all seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party could only manage to win 14 seats, a drastic fall from 25 seats earlier, whereas the Congress won eight seats and CPI(M), Rashtriya Loktantrik Party and Bharat Adivasi Party, won one seat each.