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RANCHI: The Congress lost seven of the eight seats where party vice-president Rahul Gandhi campaigned during the month-long elections in the state. BJP president Amit Shah had sarcastically predicted that Congress will certainly lose eight seats because Rahul Gandhi campaigned in them.Tuesday’s results vindicated his predictions when even outgoing minister KN Tripathi lost from Daltonganj assembly segment despite Rahul holding a ‘massive’ rally in Palamu district.Rahul campaigned in four of the five phases. Against arch-rival Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s rallies, Rahul’s drew moderate crowds. Congressmen had to work doubly-hard to bring people for his rallies. At Kanke, as he spoke more about laws that UPA brought than what problems people were facing and how Congress plans to solve them, many left the rally midway.A BJP leader said Rahul took Congress backwards while Narendra Modi led BJP to the first-ever simple majority in Jharkhand. The Gandhi scion campaigned in Manika and Panki in the first phase, Jaganathpur and Chaibasa in second, Ramgarh and Kanke in third and Shikripara and Mahgama in the fifth.In Manika, Chaibasa, Jagannathpur, Shikaripara and Mahagama Congress could not even come second. In Chaibasa winner Deepak Birua of JMM got 68,801 while Congress’ Ashok Sundi got only 8,203. JBSP’s Geeta Koda got 48,546 votes in Jaganathpur while Congress’ Sunny Sinku got only 7,142 votes. Nalin Soren of JMM got 61,901 in Shikaripara while Congress nominee Raja Marandi got only 7,877 votes. Winning BJP candidate from Mahagama Ashok Kumar got 70,635 votes while Congress got only 18,355, a report of Election Commission said.Congress also fared badly in Daltonganj, Ramgarh and Kanke seats. Alok Kumar Chourasia of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) defeated Congress by 4,347 votes in Daltonganj. BJP’s Kanke candidate Jitu Charan Ram routed Congress by 59,804 votes. In Ramgarh AJSU-Party candidate CP Choudhary defeated Congress’s Shahzada Anwar by a whopping 53,818 votes. “Rahul Gandhi had campaigned in all these seats, but we should not blame him for the loss. A review will be conducted to know what led to the loss,” said Congress state chief Sukhdeo Bhagat.Congress candidate Bidesh Singh, who won from Panki was the only exception. Singh defeated independent Shashi Bhushan Mehta by 1,995 votes.