Bengaluru, May 15 : Even as trends for Karnataka polls clearly indicate the Congress rout, the grand old party’s electoral strategy in the southern state on Tuesday came under attack.
“If Congress had gone into an alliance with the JD(S), the result would have been different. Very different,” Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted.
The election outcome in Karnataka is expected to leave a huge impact in national politics.
In the run up to the May 12 polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s critics have accused him of making
false promises of industrial growth, jobs and incentives for farmers. In fact, Congress president Rahul Gandhi repeatedly tried to make it a turf war between him and Prime Minister and went onto predict that in 2019 Mr Modi will not come back as the Prime Minister.
For BJP, obviously the polls were like a popularity test of Modi government’s policies and, more importantly, its ideology of building a nation based on RSS ideology.
It goes without saying that the anti-Narendra Modi leaders like Mamata Banerjee is keen to project herself as
a challenger to PM Modi in 2019.
“Congratulations to the winners of the Karnataka elections. For those who lost, fight back,” she said.
Her statement actually tries to underline the urgency for Congress for taking initiatives and if necessary
to ‘make sacrifice’ for forming a national-level alliance to fight BJP and Modi in 2019.
Karnataka trends: Mamata Banerjee makes veiled attack on Congress
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