Bihar polls have have exposed and rejected the “dictatorial attitude and arrogance” of Narendra Modi-led NDA government and the defeat of BJP would have wide impact on the country, Himachal Pradesh Industries Minister Mukesh Agnihotri said today.
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“Bhagwat’s statement was not damaging”.
To a question if Modi and Shah communalised campaign by raking up issues like reservation for Muslims and Pakistan, he said, “Definitely”.
The Congress, which has been reduced to being a marginal player in Bihar which it ruled on its own about three decades back, contested 41 seats of which it won 27 – almost seven times more than the four seats it had won in the 2010 polls when the party had contested all 243 assembly seats.
“Social equations of Mahagathbandhan hamare upar bhari padi (social equation of Grand Alliance cost us dearly)”, he told reporters at a “Diwali Milan” here when asked for reasons for NDA’s defeat.
An emboldened and resurrected Lalu Prasad, whose Rashtriya Janata Dal has emerged as the single largest party, winning 80 seats, has begun sabre-rattling threatening to launch a nation-wide movement against the “Fascist” Modi government and the RSS.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi last night attended a BJP post-mortem of what went wrong in Bihar.
Bhola Singh is the fifth BJP MP from Bihar to hit out at the party leadership after Sunday’s humiliating electoral loss.
There is no hurdle. “That is the only focus that will help it retain power after the five-year term”, said Mr Rishi Sahai, a Delhi-based consultant.
Under fire for the poor show in 2015 Bihar Assembly Elections, the BJP leadership has also warned its leaders that a disciplinary action will be taken against those not following the directives.
“Victory and defeat are part of the democratic process”.
“No election is decided on one statement, it is a different kind of mathematics”, he added.
Muzaffarpur was won by the BJP where Modi addressed two rallies (July 25 and October 30th).
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“The dictatorial tendencies within the BJP is something to be opposed and that opposition has come on a right occasion from the senior-most leader of the party and it is a welcome statement”, he said.
