However, JD(U) leaders contested the Congress claims contending that Kumar had already laid the foundation of the alliance in the after Lok Sabha elections previous year.
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Investors are already fretting over the speed of change in Modi’s India. He said the public has seen through BJP’s propaganda and a strong sense of disillusionment has set in and the Bihar result is “symptomatic” of this trend.
“We have given commitment to the people of Bihar about the implementation of the seven point programme”.
Joshi, who is in charge of party affairs in the state, had initially said that it was party high command to decide the matter (of participation in the new government). “We lost the polls and we accept the verdict”, he added.
The prime minister had spearheaded the election campaign of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and addressed 26 rallies in Bihar where its alliance managed to win just 58 of the total 243 seats in the assembly.
“But his next foreign visit to the United Kingdom this week to meet David Cameron and the Queen and to address a crowd of 60,000 British Indians at Wembley Stadium will for the first time be overshadowed by deepening troubles at home”, it said.
He further said that the vote share of BJP has not come down and the victory of the Mahaghatbandhan was on account of different opposition forces coming together. “The prime minister was trying his best to communicate with the people and there is nothing wrong in it”, Rajnath Singh said in an interaction with the media.
The slaughter of cows, an animal revered by the majority Hindu population, became a major topic.
“To say that everyone is responsible for the defeat in Bihar is to ensure that no one is held responsible”, Advani and the other leaders wrote in the statement.
“This is a decisive mandate against divisiveness in favor of development”, he said. His government has struggled to pass laws, including the biggest overhaul of taxes since independence.
“It raises the likelihood that the opposition will use this mandate to block important bills”, said Milan Vaishnav of Carnegie Endowment for worldwide Peace.
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Recently, the party had won local elections in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Kerala and Assam, they said. He faces five elections next year in regions where his party has failed to make inroads.
