The mandate in the Bihar Assembly elections shows that the Congress has to dust off its false narrative, which has been completely rejected by people in India’s Indian heartland, and the party must learn lessons from the poll result, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday.
While speaking to the media in Delhi, Fadnavis, who was also campaigning in Bihar, said: “We were confident that the NDA would cross 160 seats. But the results were much more than our expectations and showed the confidence of the general public in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the BJP and the NDA.”
“I had felt some opposition to incumbency. But this time, wherever one travelled, one could feel that people had decided to join the NDA. There was support for incumbency which led to a landslide victory,” said Fadnavis, who was in charge of Bihar in the last elections.
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Commenting on the ‘Vote Chauri’ campaign launched by the Congress and its alliance partners, Fadnavis said: “When you keep attacking constitutional positions and institutions, people don’t like it. In the recent Lok Sabha elections, they came out with a false narrative about a threat to the Constitution. To some extent, they succeeded in getting electoral benefits. But they were soon exposed when people realized that it was a false narrative.”
He pointed out that Congress’s performance in opinion polls is the worst. “Its harvest is less than that of AIMIM or Independents. This shows how far the party has declined. It has reduced to rubble.”
If they do not learn from their mistakes, Congress will never be able to regain its standing, Fadnavis said. “The problem is that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is repeatedly making the same mistake and relying on a false narrative.”
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