“Twenty-five seats have gone to other small regional parties and people have said beware if you show the arrogance of power,” said Saamana
Mumbai: A day after the poll results in Maharashtra, where the BJP put up a below-par performance, the ShivSena on Friday took a dig at its senior ally, saying there was no “maha janadesh” and the outcome was, in fact, a rap on the knuckles for those high on “arrogance of power”.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had traveled over 200 constituencies, out of the total 288, during his ‘Maha Janadesh Yatra’ ahead of the October 21 polling. On results day October 24, Fadnavis had talked about the saffron alliance winning more than 200 seats which have not happened.
The ShivSena in its mouthpiece “Saamana”, said the mandate has rejected the notion that elections can be swept by engineering defections and splitting opposition parties.
After analyzing the poll results, which saw prominent opposition parties were the NCP and Congress improving their tally, the editorial said the outcome shows opponents can’t be finished in politics they will remain.
The Marathi daily newspaper said the “BJP broke the NCP” in such a manner in run-up to elections that people wondered whether Sharad Pawar-led party had any future or not.
“But the NCP bounced backcrossing the 50-seat mark, while a leaderless Congress managed to win 44 seats. The results are warning to rulers not to show the arrogance of power it’s a rap on their knuckles,” said the Uddhav Thackeray-led party.
“The BJP tally gone down from 122 in 2014 to 105 in 2019, whereas the ShivSena’s tally also saw a decrease from 63 to 56. “Twenty-five seats have gone to other small regional parties and people have said beware if you show the arrogance of power,” said Saamana.
The polls did not deliver “maha janadesh”, said Saamana.
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