Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday tried to play down the BJP’s debacle in the Delhi assembly elections saying that winning and losing are part of the electoral battle and this outcome should not be seen as a verdict on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“In elections, some parties win, some lose…This does not any way mean the defeat of the party chief or of the Prime Minister (Modi). Our party will make an introspection into the debacle,” he said at the Maharashtra Police Academy here.
“If Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) clinched victory in Delhi assembly elections, it does not imply that our PM has lost,” he said replying to a query on Sena’s reaction to the Delhi poll verdict.
“Sena has been our long-time associate, and as an able coalition partner, it should be with us in good times and bad,” the CM said refusing to comment further.
Taking a jibe at the BJP after its humiliating defeat, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had said on Tuesday that it would not be wrong to call the results a defeat for Narendra Modi.
—PTI