Congress Top Guns Strike Divergent Notes on Poll Losses

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Chidambaram Credits BJP’s ‘Polarizing’ Campaign for Maharashtra Win

By Raisina Correspondent

New Delhi, December 1: Within a span of a few days, the Congress leaders have sounded divergent views on the loss in the Assembly elections in Maharashtra. For record, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) spotlighted the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the political resolution.

Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram ignored the EVM issue in his analysis of the Maharashtra Assembly elections. In an opinion piece for The Indian Express, Chidambaram gave more attention to the alleged polarising campaigns of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.

The CWC meeting on Friday had given seriousness to the allegations against the EVM manipulations. Speaking to the media after the CWC meeting, Jairam Ramesh, the communication department chief of the Congress, raised the demand for the 100 per cent matching of the VVPAT paper trails while counting the votes.

The Congress president Mallikarjuna Kharge in his speech at the CWC meeting had given a cover to the central leadership of the party while stating that the state units shouldn’t always be looking at the top leaders. Kharge had laid emphasis in closing ranks by the party leaders in the state units to win election.

Kharge’s remarks have been seen as admission by the Congress party on rumblings in the state units that accounted for the losses in Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections.

Within a week of the loss in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the Congress leaders have offered a wide array of explanations for the defeat. The Congress could win just 16 Assembly seats in Maharashtra where elections were held for a total of 288 legislative constituencies.

“The BJP’s victory in Maharashtra was because of solgans of ek hai to safe hai given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and batenge to katenge,” Chidambaram sought to argue in his column while making references to a few columns to argue that the slogans raised by the BJP leaders were aimed at polarizing the Hindu vote base.

Chidambaram also made reference to the Dussehra speech of the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat in which he spoke of his concerns of risks to the Hindu community on account of divisions. Chidambaram argued that the BJP is employing the divide and rule policy of the erstwhile British Rule to win elections.

Some of the political commentators have questioned disproportionate attention paid by leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in campaigning in Wayanad parliamentary seat. His sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress general secretary, won her maiden election from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.

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