Inexplicable…manipulation: Its LS gains gone, Congress alleges plot in rout

On Saturday, hours aft the MVA’s rout successful Maharashtra, apical leaders, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, said the verdict was “unexpected” and they would “analyse them successful detail.” But the party, astatine a property conference, went galore steps beyond this to allege “manipulation.”

Congress connection caput Jairam Ramesh said the verdict was “inexplicable” and alleged that that the level-playing tract was disturbed successful a “targeted” mode arsenic portion of a conspiracy to decision INDIA alliance.

However, the enactment hailed the effect successful Jharkhand, saying the radical of the authorities person categorically rejected the BJP’s “politics of polarisation.”

“The Maharashtra Assembly canvass effect is apratayashit and inexplicable,” Ramesh said. The outcome, helium said, has been brought astir done a “targeted conspiracy aft the level-playing tract was disturbed successful the authorities to decision the Congress… Our morale is not down and we volition fortify the organisation and analyse the results.”

AICC media and publicity caput Pawan Khera said it was astonishing that the radical of Maharashtra, who had defeated BJP successful Lok Sabha polls person fixed 132 of 148 seats to it.

“We are provided a level playing tract successful Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Assembly by-elections…we were fto (to) triumph determination with an anticipation that we volition support our rima unopen successful Maharashtra… We volition not support quiet. Tactics are utilized lone wherever BJP has to instrumentality vantage and level playing tract is allowed astatine different places. We volition support raising questions connected the predetermination process whether we triumph oregon lose,” Khera said.

“In a state wherever introspection papers get leaked, tin we blindly spot the machine, predetermination committee and predetermination process there?” Khera said, adding: “You cannot unopen our rima by showing the results of Jharkhand”.

He said it has go communal to revise the voting percent upwards aft polling is over. “You each person seen videos which aboveground successful societal media aft each predetermination which shows EVM machines successful the conveyance of 1 BJP person oregon other.. yesterday it happened successful Nagpur…there are nary answers. How tin the EC slumber easy astatine night? Silence is not an answer, truthful it is our work to rise specified questions which occupation the BJP…We volition support connected raising these issues due to the fact that we attraction astir ideology and the aboriginal procreation of this country,” Khera said.

Said Ramesh: “We tin accidental that winners excessively had not anticipated this result. We were definite that we volition get the mandate. The nationalist was with us. Farmers, the moving people successful Maharashtra, were upset and against the government. We believed that determination was the aforesaid ambiance arsenic was 4 months backmost (during the Lok Sabha polls). But the results are other to expectations but that does not mean that we volition spell backmost connected our agenda. The issues we raised successful Maharashtra during the elections, we volition revive the organisation connected the ground of the aforesaid issues,” helium said.

On claims that BJP won successful Maharashtra due to the fact that of micro-management, Ramesh said: “Micromanagement is adjacent to crushed level manipulation and this is precisely what has happened. Each of our leaders has been targeted. It’s a targeted manipulation.”

Ramesh added that stakes of BJP and Prime Minister’s favourite concern radical were the maximum successful Maharashtra.

“We were up against a instrumentality which was manipulating connected the ground. We were up against a instrumentality that had deliberately targeted spot aft spot aft seat… full non-entities person won from the BJP. And elder leaders of Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena (UBT) person been targeted,” Ramesh said.

On EVMs, Ramesh said, “This is not substance with instrumentality only. This is substance of process and manipulation is happening successful process.”

In Mumbai, AICC successful complaint of Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala said:

“How tin we judge the Maharashtra assembly predetermination results? There are problems of unemployment, inflation, and corruption. Have each these problems ended with the Majhi Ladki Bahin yojana? In the Lok Sabha polls, the radical of Maharashtra had voted for Maha Vikas Aghadi. What has happened since past for specified a alteration successful results?”