Party not to blame anybody for the loss in Bihar Assembly elections
PM Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah, Sushma Swaraj and Nitin Gadkari during party's parliamentary board meeting in New Delhi (Photo: PTI)
New Delhi: In the almost hour-long meeting between the BJP and the RSS, sources said Mr Amit Shah briefed Mr Mohan Bhagwat on why the party lost the polls. After the results were out on Sunday, the BJP had vehemently denied that Mr Bhagwat’s reservation comments had had any impact on the poll outcome.
Mr Bhagwat also met President Pranab Muk-herjee, in what was termed a “courtesy call”, according to the Pres-ident’s official Twitter handle. But sources said Mr Bhagwat had informally discussed with the President some issues he highlighted in his Dasara address during their half-hour meeting. Sources said this meeting had been fixed around Dasara.
The BJP, whose parliamentary board met to review the defeat, ruled out holding anyone responsible for the rout in Bihar. The party also rejected the criticism even from within that Mr Bhagwat’s reservation remarks were one of the key reasons for the defeat.
The party admitted that the size of the “social arithmetic” put together by the Opposition was bigger than the NDA and acknowledged that its assessment that vote transferability among JD(U), RJD and Congress would not happen had proved “incorrect”.
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