Gujarat poll results gave massive jolt to BJP: Rahul Gandhi

19 Dec 2017 Evaluate

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered a massive jolt following the results of Gujarat Assembly polls. Rahul said outside Parliament house that ‘three-four months back when we went to Gujarat it was said that Congress cannot fight against the BJP, but we did hard work and you have seen the results. The BJP has received a big jolt in Gujarat’. As opposed to its target of 150, the BJP won only 99 seats in Gujarat, which is PM Narendra Modi's home state and the development in the province is cited as a model for other states.

Talking about the takeaways from the elections, the new Congress president said he realised during his stay there that 'Gujarat Model' of development was hollow. He added that ‘their propaganda and marketing is good, but they are hollow from inside. They could not answer our campaigning. Prime Minister Modi talks about development but all are hollow claims. During the rallies he did not talk about any development agenda but only about himself’.

He added that election results further indicated that the credibility of PM Modi has come into question. Rahul further said the people of Gujarat have sent a message to PM that the BJP's politics of anger would not work anymore and could be defeated by love and brotherhood. The BJP on Monday won the Gujarat assembly polls for the sixth straight time against. The saffron party won 99 seats in the 182-member assembly while Congress reached the impressive figure of 77 assembly seats.

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