[Marxistindia] On Assembly Election Results

[news from the cpi(m)]

December 18, 2017

 

Press Statement

 

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

On Assembly Election Results

 

The Gujarat assembly election results show that the BJP has nothing much to
celebrate. Although it has won a majority to form a government, it has got
the lowest number of seats in the last two decades. It is expected to win
around hundred seats compared to 115 last time - a big fall from the
"Mission 150" declared by BJP President Amit Shah. The erosion in support
can also be seen from the fact that in the Lok Sabha election of 2014 the
BJP had led in 165 assembly segments.

 

The discontent of the people against the BJP could have been channelised
more effectively if there had been a credible opposition with an alternative
programme.

 

In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP has won the election comfortably routing the
ruling Congress. The verdict in Himachal has been against the corruption and
misrule of the Virbhadra Singh government. The CPI(M) has won an assembly
seat and will be represented in the state assembly after a gap of twenty
years. 

 

 

 

 

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