People defeated divisive forces: Nabin
BJP president Nitin Nabin on Monday hailed NDA’s performance in the assembly polls as “historic” and asserted that the opposition INDIA bloc will now “crumble like a pack of cards”, blaming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for the electoral reverses of the DMK and the TMC in the state elections.
Addressing an event organised at the BJP headquarters here to celebrate the party’s stunning performance in West Bengal and the NDA’s success in Assam and Puducherry, Nabin said that the results of the elections reflect people’s continued faith in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
People have defeated the “divisive forces” and their “anti-Hindu agenda” by giving their mandate to the BJP and its allies in the polls, he added. “People have given historic support to the BJP in the elections,” Nabin said.
While the counting of votes was still underway, the trends indicated that the BJP was poised to record a landslide victory in West Bengal, inflicting a crushing defeat on the ruling TMC, and appeared to be returning to power in Assam and Puducherry with its coalition partners under the banner of National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
In Tamil Nadu, the DMK appeared to have lost in the elections with the ruling party winning just 44 seats and leading in 16 seats in the 234-member Assembly, and the TVK merging as the single largest party winning 73 seats and leading in 33 seats around 8.30 pm.
The DMK’s ally Congress, which won just two seats till the filing of this report, was leading in three other seats. None of the parties, including the AIADMK, could reach the majority mark. In an apparent reference to the losses that the TMC and the DMK suffered in the state elections, the BJP chief added, “This failure belongs to no one else but Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the INDI Alliance.”
“I assure you that after these poll results, the INDI alliance will crumble like a pack of cards,” added BJP president.
In Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK won 30 seats and was leading in 17, while its ally, the BJP ended up winning just one seat.
Kerala witnessed a sharp political reset as the state electors voted out the last Left government in the country, bringing back the Congress to the ruling saddle after a gap of 10 years, while the BJP broke through a long-standing electoral drought by winning three seats.
The BJP, which has long struggled to secure a political foothold in a state traditionally witnessing a bipolar contest between the LDF and UDF, made significant gains in the assembly elections by winning three seats.
