Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has reacted sharply to the loss his party faced in the recent West bengal assembly elections. The ruling Trinamool Congress won a majority of 47.9% of the votes cast in the polls that were held recently. The result was announced Sunday.
BJP emerged with the second biggest share of the vote count, bagging 38.1% vote share while Congress was reduced to 2.93% vote share.
Chowdhury told Indianj Express in an interview, “I have been defeated in a humiliating manner. At this point, you may call me an ex-MP. If the results give any indication, certainly I have become an ex-MP.I cannot expect any bright prospects in this present situation. However, things certainly will change because the credibility of the Narendra Modi government has been reducing day after day.”
He added, “So if the Congress is able to put forth its point more vigorously and not confine itself to Twitter or WhatsApp but hit the streets in support of common people… otherwise this opportunity also will be lost. We should hit the streets because there’s no dearth of issues and people are suffering a lot. That they have failed miserably in dealing with the Covid situation…and all other aspects and only the Congress and its allies can be the alternative.”
He also said, “The TMC raised this, that I had been left high and dry and I do not have the support of the AICC. After two rallies, Rahul Gandhiji stopped coming to West Bengal because of the Covid situation. It also demoralised our workers and gave a handle to the ruling regime to humiliate us…We had to fend for ourselves. We have been decimated by Mamata Banerjee regionally, we have been decimated by Modiji nationally. The BJP is the threat for us nationally and Mamata Banerjee is the threat for us regionally. So where should we go?”
Of the total 292 seats, TMC won 213 while BJP won on 72 seats. In an interesting battle, BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari defeated sitting chief minister, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and won the Nandigram seat.