Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal remarked on the recent Assembly elections across five states, highlighting the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) strategies of persuasion, inducement, coercion, and division. He noted that while the BJP’s tactics found success in West Bengal through alleged malpractices, South India stood firm against the party’s divisive ideology and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. In Kerala, Sapkal praised the Congress party’s victory as a triumph for democracy and the Constitution, emphasizing the people’s faith in the Congress ideology and Rahul Gandhi’s leadership.
State Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant criticized BJP leaders for celebrating their victory in the birthplace of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Sawant highlighted Mukherjee’s history of opposing the Quit India Movement and expressed concern over the rise of a fanatical ideology in his birthplace, contrasting it with the values upheld by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The Congress leaders expressed confidence in their party’s ideology as a unifying force for the country, drawing inspiration from Kerala’s electoral success to energize party workers nationwide for the future.
