New Delhi, Oct 22 (Inditop.com) Conceding defeat in the assembly elections to three states “with humility”, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday blamed Raj Thackeray’s party for a vote split in favour of the Congress in Maharashtra.
“The results are unexpected. But we accept the people’s verdict with humility. We are disappointed. We have to honestly ponder over our weaknesses and act fast,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here, as election results and trends from Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh showed that the Congress was poised to win.
He blamed Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for splitting the votes in favour of the Congress in Maharashtra.
“In about 40-45 constituencies, the MNS factor favoured the Congress,” he said.
The ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance may end up with some 140 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly. Independents, rebels and smaller groups could corner over 40 seats. The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance is unlikely to touch the 100-mark.
The Congress swept the 60-seat Arunachal Pradesh assembly elections as widely expected, but in Haryana it managed only a slender win. It had been supremely confident of bagging two-thirds of the seats in the 90-member Haryana legislature.
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