AICC General Secretary Shakeel Ahmed on Saturday said the BJP and the NDA should not rejoice at the outcome of the Assembly poll results in five states.
“BJP and NDA have nothing to rejoice after seeing the results of the just-concluded assembly polls in five states,” Ahmed told reporters here.
The Congress, he said, had increased its seats in Uttarakhand (32 from 21), Uttar Pradesh (28 from 22), Punjab (46 from 44) and Manipur where BJP had not got a single seat.
BJP had lost seats in these states except Goa, he said. In Uttarakhand, BJP lost three seats, four in Uttar Pradesh and seven in Punjab, Ahmed said. “While BJP had snatched Goa, Congress snatched Uttarakhand,” he said.
Goa sends two MPs as compared to Uttarakhand’s five MPs in Lok Sabha, the Congress general secretary said.
Ahmed said that the Samajwadi Party was supporting the UPA government as well as Mayawati.
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