Guj win endorsement of agri laws
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 3
The BJP today applauded PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah’s contribution to the party’s victory in the elections to various local bodies in Gujarat, saying if extrapolated at the Assembly level, it would mean 155 leads for the saffron party. The Gujarat Vidhan Sabha has 182 seats. The state goes to the polls next year.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar termed it as a verdict on the contentious farm laws and other issues like the LPG price hike, raised by the Congress during the elections. “The BJP has been in power in Gujarat for more than 30 years now and the people’s faith in the party is ‘adbhut’. A Congress MLA and kin of senior party leaders faced defeat in these elections,” he pointed out.
“This is a vote for development and also an endorsement of the farm laws and agri reforms. The Congress created a lot of drama around LPG price hike. But people do not like negative campaigns,” Javadekar said. On the outcome of the MCD bypolls in Delhi, he replied: “The parties were able to retain their seats (Jo seat jis ke pass thi, wo usko gyi).” The AAP swept the bypolls, winning four of the five wards where the elections were held. The Congress won one seat.
“In 2015, the Congress had won 22 of the 31 zila panchayats and the BJP nine. This time we won all 31. Of the total 976 seats, the BJP won 800 — about 80 per cent of the seats,” Javadekar observed.
