Ahmedabad: After Congress's rout in the Gujarat by-elections, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) Chief Arjun Modhwadia on Wednesday said the party failed to bring people's anger against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the state to the polling booths. In a blow to the Congress, the BJP on Wednesday swept the by-polls winning two Lok Sabha and four Assembly seats in Gujarat.
"We accept the people's verdict...Congress hasn't been sucessfull in the by-elections. All I want to say is that we failed to bring the anger of people against the BJP rule to polling booths," GPCC Chief Arjun Modhwadia told reporters. "During the campaign for by-elections, people's anger against the ruling BJP was palpable on issues like water scarcity, illegal mining, hike in electricity tariffs adversely impacting the farmers," he said.
Lashing out at BJP rule, Modhwadia said they have already hiked electricity tariff by 0.37 paise per unit and another 70 paisa hike could be in offing, post the elections now. He also alleged that the BJP had blatantly misused the state machinery for 'gains' in the by-elections.
All the six seats - two Lok Sabha and four Assembly - for which the results were declared on Wednesday were previously with the Congress. In an endorsement of Modi's popularity in state, the BJP won the Porbandar and Banaskantha Lok Sabha and Limbadi, Morva Hadaf, Jetpur and Dhoraji assembly seats, all of which were held by Congress. After the debacle in the by-elections, the Congress chief said the trends could not be compared with what the people desired in Gujarat.
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