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Chandigarh, Describing the bye-election results in several states as re-assertion of the secular thought, the Punjab Congress President, Mr. Partap Singh Bajwa, said here was the steepest ever fall of the popularity of a leader as the BJP had swept to power riding on what had then been described as Mr Narendra Modi’s tidal wave.
Mr Bajwa said never earlier in electoral history of India the popularity graph of a leader and his party had witnessed such a steep nosedive and that too within 100 days of the government coming into power at the centre. The people within no time had forcefully rebuffed the communal political discourse while making it clear that who-so-ever tried to destroy the secular fabric of this country would not be allowed to succeed in such nefarious designs.
He asserted that it was the Congress under the leadership of Shrimati Sonia Gandhi and Mr Rahul Gandhi that was leading the secular political discourse and the idea of a secular India could not be tinkered with.
He alleged that in the run up to the bye-elections, the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party tried to poison the social environment especially in Uttar Pradesh where this party had swept the polls in the Lok sabha electuions. However, the party got exposed within no time.
He said within no time of coming into power, the Narendra Modi government just forgot about the dream of “ache din aayenge” and the people had now taught a lesson to the sectarian BJP as the party, which had given the slogan of “Sabka Vikas” embarked upon the policy of “Vinaash” by dividing the people on communal lines.
He expressed the hope that this trend would continue in the forthcoming Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections.
