Blind and lame joined hands in vain hope of victory: BJP's dig at Cong-AAP poll pact in Gujarat
BJP on Saturday took a dig at the seat-sharing pact between Congress and AAP for upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat, saying «a blind and a lame» have joined hands ignoring the ground realities. As per the seat-sharing formula, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party will contest from Bharuch and Bhavnagar Lok Sabha seats and the Congress on the rest 24.
AAP and Congress are dreaming of winning elections without seeing the ground reality, said Gujarat BJP president CR Paatil.
Paatil cited the voting percentage of the 2022 Gujarat assembly elections to claim that the alliance appeared far from winning seats in these two LS constituencies.
The BJP whitewashed Congress in the 2019 general elections by winning all 26 constituencies in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
«No alliance can stop the BJP from winning all 26 (Lok Sabha) seats and that too with a margin of over 5 lakh votes. I believe that Congress and AAP are still dreaming and not ready to see the ground reality,» Paatil told media persons.
In the 2022 state assembly elections, the BJP retained power with a record mandate of 156 seats. The Congress won only 17 seats and AAP 5, out of 182.
In the Bharuch constituency, the BJP secured 51 per cent of votes, 12 per cent more than the combined vote share of Congress (around 26 per cent) and AAP (13 per cent), Paatil said.
«In the last assembly elections, candidates of AAP lost their deposits in four of the seven segments under the Bharuch constituency. Bhavnagar is
