Maharashtra Ballot Outcomes Inexplicable, Stage-Taking part in Area Disturbed: Congress – News18
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The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance swept the Maharashtra polls, decimating the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) with a landslide victory, whereas the INDIA bloc retained Jharkhand.
Congress chief Jairam Ramesh had filed a grievance with the ballot physique in opposition to an commercial marketing campaign of the BJP wherein actors with shut resemblance to high leaders of the JMM, Congress and the RJD had been used. (PTI File)
The Congress on Saturday described the Maharashtra ballot final result as “sudden and inexplicable”, and claimed that the level-playing area within the state was disturbed in a focused method as a part of a conspiracy to defeat it.
The opposition occasion, nonetheless, hailed the ballot ends in Jharkhand, saying the folks of the state have categorically rejected the “politics of polarisation” peddled by the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP).
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance swept the Maharashtra polls, decimating the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) with a landslide victory, whereas the INDIA bloc retained Jharkhand, voters in each states giving the events in energy an emphatic thumbs up.
Addressing a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh asserted that his occasion could have misplaced the polls in Maharashtra however it could proceed to boost the problems that it has been elevating because the parliamentary polls.
“On Maharashtra, there could be no two methods about it that in a focused method, the level-playing area, a phrase that the Election Fee typically makes use of, was disturbed. The election outcomes are sudden, very shocking and inexplicable,” Ramesh mentioned.
“Some individuals are analysing the ballot outcomes of Maharashtra and saying it is a victory of improvement, and an NCP chief has said that the Congress occasion’s faux narrative has been rejected by the folks of the state. That is unsuitable, there shouldn’t be any doubt that the agenda we had through the Lok Sabha polls — financial inequalities, social polarisation, safety of the Structure, a caste census and the Modani scams — these points are as necessary and we’ll proceed to boost these,” he added.
The folks of Maharashtra haven’t rejected this, the Congress chief mentioned.
The Congress will analyse the outcomes however even those that received didn’t anticipate this, Ramesh mentioned.
“We had been anticipating that we’ll get the mandate. Farmers had been upset and everybody believed that we’ll get the mandate. The outcomes are completely reverse to this, however this doesn’t imply that we’ll deviate from our agenda,” he mentioned.
“We are going to re-energise our organisation on the idea of this agenda. We’ve gotten a jolt however this jolt was given. There was a conspiracy to defeat us,” Ramesh claimed.
He mentioned Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had a phrase with AICC Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala and within the subsequent 24 to 36 hours, there will probably be a gathering the place numerous points associated to the ballot outcomes will probably be mentioned.
Hailing the Jharkhand Meeting polls verdict, Ramesh congratulated the folks of the state for displaying the nation a brand new approach and “categorically rejecting” the politics of polarisation.
“(Assam Chief Minister) Himanta Biswa Sarma, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, (Union minister) Shivraj Chouhan, Residence Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi — what all did they not say? Your complete election was about one subject and one phrase — ’ghuspetiya’ (infiltrators). Makes an attempt had been made to create concern however folks have given a decisive verdict,” he mentioned.
“This can be a optimistic message for the entire nation that politics of polarisation could be defeated and we’ll defeat it,” the Congress chief asserted.
Addressing the presser, Congress’s media and publicity division head Pawan Khera mentioned because the principal opposition occasion, “we discover it our accountability to maintain elevating problems with transparency in elections”.
“The Lok Sabha election was fought within the title of Modiji in Maharashtra and the BJP didn’t do effectively. The identical state provides the identical BJP 132 out of 148 seats (contested by the saffron occasion) inside four-five months. What sort of a strike fee is that this? Is that this strike fee potential? Democracy is our concern,” Khera mentioned.
“Whether or not we win or lose, we’ll proceed to query the election course of and lift problems with transparency. In a rustic the place examination papers are leaked, can we blindly belief the machines? You can’t shut us up by displaying the outcomes of Jharkhand. To this point, other than poetry, now we have not obtained any concrete reply from the Election Fee,” he mentioned.
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