Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that some Congress leaders are “gloating” about the defeat of Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the West Bengal election and asked them to put “petty politics” aside.
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a post on X, the Congress leader said the theft of Assam and West Bengal’s mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy.
“Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC’s loss. They need to understand this clearly – the theft of Assam and Bengal’s mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy. Put petty politics aside. This is not about one party or another. This is about India,” he wrote on X.
After failing to open its account in the 2021 election, Congress, this time, won two seats in West Bengal.
The BJP won 206 seats to secure more than a two-thirds majority in the West Bengal assembly polls, ending the TMC’s 15-year rule as it was decimated to around 80 in the 294-strong Assembly.
The BJP whitewashed the TMC in nine of the 23 districts of West Bengal, racking up all 68 seats these regions had to offer on its way to paint the state saffron in the watershed election.
As the party marched to power in the state for the first time, the mandate in these nine districts — from north Bengal’s hills to the central part of the south — has shown that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had correctly predicted in his campaign trail that TMC would fail to open its account in multiple districts.
The result also marked the BJP’s decisive breach of its last major eastern bastion, completing its saffron arc across ‘Anga, Banga and Kalinga’ (Bihar, Bengal and Odisha).
