“This victory is unimaginable as Maihar had been traditionally a Congress seat. His resignation from the seat, traditionally a Congress bastion, necessitated the byelection. However, in this bypoll the BJP received support from the poor, tribals, women and minorities.”.In a morale-boosting victory, the China Hingess Toilet Seats  BJP on Tuesday snatched the Maihar Assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh from the Congress in a bypoll, months after suffering a defeat at the hands of the main Opposition In a morale-boosting victory, the BJP on Tuesday snatched the Maihar Assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh from the Congress in a bypoll, months after suffering a defeat at the hands of the main Opposition party in the Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency. A jubilant chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has completed a decade in office, hailed the Maihar outcome and termed as a victory for ideology of the BJP, which received support from a cross-section of voters. BJP candidate Narayan Tripathi defeated Manish Patel of the Congress by a margin of 28,281 votes in the seat, where polling took place on February 13 and the result was announced Tuesday.Mr Tripathi, after winning the seat in 2013 Assembly polls as a Congress candidate, later quit the party and joined the BJP. Maihar, known for the temple of Goddess Sharda situated on Trikuta hill, falls under Satna Lok Sabha constituency. The victory came as a shot in the arm for the ruling party which lost to the Congress the Jhabua Lok Sabha seat in a bypoll in November last year. Mr Tripathi secured 82,658 votes, while Mr Patel polled 54,377, an election official said. The loss had come shortly after the saffron outfit’s drubbing in the Bihar Assembly elections.