“May they be happy with their arrogance, lies, pessimism and ignorance. But..Beware of their divisive agenda. An old habit of 70 years can’t go away so easily. Also, such is the wisdom of the people that they have to be prepared for many more meltdowns ahead,” PM Modi wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
BJP party tsunami swept the Hindi heartland on the counting day for four states that polled for their assemblies last month. BJP, with its stunning mandates in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, stumped not just their rivals but also some pollsters who had predicted tight races in these states.
As the BJP leadership savoured the triple victory just months after losing its lone southern citadel Karnataka to the Congress, PM Modi said some people are already saying that the party’s hat-trick in the states is a guarantee of hat-trick in the Lok Sabha polls.
“The results show popular support for our battle against corruption,” Modi told a crowd of cheering supporters at the BJP headquarters here, adding that they have served a lesson to the Congress and the opposition’s INDIA bloc that merely collecting some dynasts on a dais may make for a good photograph but cannot win people’s confidence. Voters have delivered a warning to these parties involved in corruption to mend their ways or people will finish them off, he said.
Ruling MP for 18 years, a well entrenched BJP managed to stave off anti-incumbency in a shot in the arm for four-time chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and dashing the hopes of a resurgent Congress helmed by veteran and former CM Kamal Nath. Winning 163 seats, the BJP got two-thirds majority in a House of 230. Congress bagged 66 seats.
With BJP dislodging the Congress hit by factionalism in Rajasthan, the desert state stuck to a nearly 30-year-old ‘rivaz’ (tradition) of not voting an incumbent party back to power. BJP got a majority bagging 115 seats after voting was held for 199 constituencies. Congress notched 69 seats.
The Chhattisgarh outcome was a surprise for many Congress leaders who were hoping for another stint in power in the state by fending off the BJP challenge.
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