Not just its opponents, but its allies too are mocking the Bharatiya Janata Party for debacle in Delhi Assembly Elections.
In an edit in its mouthpiece Saamna, Shiv Sena made a scathing attack at the party, saying it was not enough to put responsibility only on BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi.
Attacking ally BJP, the Shiv Sena today asked the people of Maharashtra to take lessons from the outcome of Delhi Assembly results.
“Delhi has embraced ‘Paanch Saal, (Arvind) Kejriwal’. The people of Maharashtra must learn from this. They should ponder and move ahead in that direction, that is the outcome of Delhi,” the Shiv Sena said.
It said the trend started three months ago when the Narendra Modi ‘wave’ was halted in Maharashtra, but now the ‘tsunami’ has reached Delhi.
The Delhi Assembly results proved that a ‘tsunami’ is more powerful than a ‘wave’ and emphatically reiterated Gandhian Anna Hazare’s view that it was “a debacle for Modi”, it said.
In one of the most stunning comebacks in Indian political history, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday scored a landslide victory in Delhi, delivering to the BJP its first defeat since its historic Lok Sabha triumph and reducing the Congress, which ruled the capital for 15 years till 2013, to a virtual nonentity.
The 27-month-old party grabbed a sensational 67 of the 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly, leaving just three seats to the Bharatiya Janata Party — the highest victory margin for any party in Delhi so far.
The BJP suffered far more humiliation, with its chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, who had been personally picked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, losing to a little known advocate of the AAP.
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray had on Monday termed the AAP sweep a ‘tsunami’. “This is a great day for democracy. It was not just a wave. It was a tsunami which swept Delhi. I agree with Anna Hazare that this is a defeat for Modi, not (Kiran) Bedi.”
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