Senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that the Congress could not win even 100 seats in the third consecutive Lok Sabha elections, facing its third worst defeat in this election.

Sitharaman, speaking during the Chandigarh State Executive meeting of the city BJP where she was the chief guest, said that the Congress could not win even a single seat in 14 states. Total 13 INDI Alliance parties could win only 232 seats while the BJP by its own won 242 seats.

“But they are celebrating as if they have won the elections. In the last 10 Lok Sabha elections, that is from 1984 to 2024, the Congress could not cross even 250 seats mark. But, they have this artificial confidence,” she said.

Sitharaman felt that the opposition did not contest this election in a fair manner. “They created fake narratives,” she said, adding that the statements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari were twisted by the opposition in several issues and they tried to create a fake narrative.

She suggested that the BJP need to answer it back with facts and figures. She said that on every issue, the Congress or its sympathizers went to the Supreme Court, but the verdict came in favour of the BJP-led Government. Rahul Gandhi abused the RSS, he had to apologize in the Court.

The Congress said that there was corruption in the Rafale deal, they had to again apologize in the Court. But, they are shameless. To remember what happened during the emergency, Samwidhan Hatya Diwas has been notified. Every opposition leader was sent to jail. It was in 1975 that socialism and secularism words were added in the Constitution.

She said that contrary to Congress' times of bomb blasts in India, the country is heading in a positive direction. Whether it is solar energy or artificial intelligence, good growth is there. "We have a responsive government that is doing well in other sectors also," she added.