Political Scan: The year 2013 was the time. That year BJP had broken all the records of its victory in Rajasthan. Nevertheless, there was one seat which was discussed a lot. Because BJP lost that seat by just 329 votes. That defeat also took a dramatic turn. We are talking about Amer assembly seat of Jaipur district. The leader who lost the election from BJP was Satish Poonia. That defeat had created a political crisis for Poonia. From there the Poonis remained on the side of the organization. But then in the year 2018, Satish Poonia came to the fray on a BJP ticket from Amer seat. This time he got victory by more than 13 thousand votes. Now Poonia is the president of Rajasthan BJP for more than three years. You also read this entire political story in a systematic way.
Defeat and victory were very interesting
Experts say that in the year 2013, when there was tsunami of BJP in entire Rajasthan, the defeat of Poonis on Amer was also not so easy. It is told that once the matter of Satish Poonia getting victory by about three thousand votes has come to the fore. But in a short while, the matter of non-counting of some votes also came to the fore. After that, Satish Poonia was defeated by 329 votes. This defeat and victory also remained very interesting.
Such was the young political beginning
Satish Poonia joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in 1982 and joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. From the year 1982 to 1992, he worked as the Unit President, Maharaja College, Jaipur as Metropolitan Co-Minister, State Co-Minister, Metropolitan Minister and State Minister. In 1989, he became the General Secretary of the Student Union in Rajasthan University and also demonstrated against Bofors corruption, during which he also went to jail. In 1998, he was made the state president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Rajasthan. He also took out Yuva Jagran Pad Yatra from 14 March to 7 April. More than thousands of workers participated in this 550 kilometer journey. From 1998 to 2003, he was a member of the Central Executive of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and worked as in-charge of Punjab.
Got responsibility in BJP
After the year 2000, Satish Poonia started his innings in BJP. He worked as State General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party Rajasthan from 2004 to 2006 and State Morcha in-charge from 2006 to 2007. Poonia has been the State General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party four times from 2004 to 2014. After this, in the year 2011, he was the coordinator of BJP leader LK Advani’s Jan Chetna Yatra. He also played an important role in the 2010 and 2015 Haryana assembly elections. In the year 2013, stood from Amer assembly constituency. In front of him was Naveen Pilania from the National People’s Party. He defeated Satish Poonia by 329 votes. In this election, Naveen Pilania got 51103 votes, Satish Poonia got 50774 votes and Ganga Sahai Sharma got 40651 votes.
Satish Poonia did not falter in the 2013 Amer assembly elections after being defeated by such a small number of votes, he worked continuously for 5 years. In the 2018 Amer assembly elections, Poonia won by a margin of 13276 votes defeating Prashant Sharma from Congress and Naveen Pilania from BSP.
Got responsibility as BJP President
Satish Poonia became MLA from Amer but BJP got defeated in the state. After winning in the year 2018, Poonia got a big responsibility in the very next year in December 2019. Dr. Satish Poonia was appointed as the state president of Rajasthan BJP. After that he got extension even after three years tenure. Now in this election year, the role of Satish Poonia in BJP in Rajasthan is looking important.
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