Farmers Movement Archive

BJP scored points over Congress in rural polls: Poonia

Jaipur: The war of words over whether BJP or Congress performed better in the panchayati raj elections continues even several days after the results were announced. Hitting out at CM Ashok Gehlot who claimed that Congress had increased its vote share in the recently concluded polls in 21 districts, BJP on Saturday said that in all winning parameters their party has scored points over the ruling party. BJP state president Satish Poonia said that it is unfortunate that Gehlot is not able see the simple maths which says that BJP performed better than the Congress. "How can he forget that the result has gone against the ruling party. Congress is trying to manipulate the result as BJP has exposed their false claim over the farm bills. By spinning the figures, you cannot change the verdict which is in our favour," said Poonia. "Can we claim that Congress doesn’t have the right to rule since the vote share difference was less than 1.5 lakh in the state assembly polls. He (Gehlot) must accept the defeat as he accepts victory. It is just an attempt to confuse the people by spinning the facts," said Poonia. Gehlot had said that Congress had got more votes than the BJP in the elections held in 222 panchayat samities in 21 districts. While the figures say that Congress got 40.87% votes, BJP got 40.58% votes.

The Times of India

2020-12-13

Jaipur