Bharatiya Janata Party MP Radha Mohan Das Agrawal on Tuesday claimed that his party could have won the bye-election in Rajasthan’s Anta Assembly seat using wrongful means but deliberately chose not to, ETV Bharat Rajasthan reported.

The Congress’ Pramod Jain won in Anta on November 14, defeating the ruling BJP’s Morpal Suman with a margin of 15,612 votes.

Speaking to reporters in Jaipur on Tuesday, Agrawal, who is a national general secretary of the BJP, claimed that the Anta bye-election results were proof of his party’s commitment to conducting free and fair elections.

“The Anta bye-poll has proved that the BJP conducts elections with neutrality in this country,” The Wire quoted the Rajya Sabha MP as saying. “If we wanted to wrongly control the elections on the basis of politics, voter list, administration, then the Anta election would have been in our pocket.”

He added: “But we respected the people’s mandate with all honesty.”

Agrawal also questioned critics who have accused the BJP of engaging in electoral malpractice, claiming that the results in Anta were a “tight slap on their cheek”.

The Congress has repeatedly accused the Election Commission of large-scale vote rigging, including in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections held in 2024, alleging what they called “industrial-scale rigging involving the capture of national institutions.”

The Election Commission has rejected these allegations.

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