Chhattisgarh outgoing Deputy Chief Minister, TS Singh Deo on Monday said that the results of the state assembly elections declared a day earlier were 'unexpected' for him as he had not visualised his defeat.
Speaking to ANI, Singh also said that no one was able to guess that Congress would not be able to form its government in Chhattisgarh.
«It was not expected. I did not visualise that I would lose or the Congress party would not come to power in the state...No one was able to guess that Congress would not be able to form its government in Chhattisgarh.
All the polls that came out, gave the government to the Congress in Chhattisgarh, everyone went wrong,» Singh said.
The former Deputy CM said that though the Congress did not lose its vote share the BJP had significantly increased its share to register a political victory.
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- «We will have to introspect our loss. All the surveys of media failed here. We were expecting to get as many seats as BJP got. Congress vote did not decrease. Our vote share was the same as compared to the last time but BJP was able to increase their vote share by 14%. From 32%, they reached 46% which was unexpected» TS Singh Deo said.
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