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Attack on Congress: In 1984, the Congress won a majority in the Lok Sabha for the last time and in 2014 the party reached the lowest level while in power.
Attack on Congress: The BJP on Friday, citing historical election data, said that Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of ‘vote theft’ is baseless. Since 1984, the Congress’s electoral performance has been continuously falling. In 1984, the Congress won a majority in the Lok Sabha for the last time and in 2014 the party reached the lowest level while in power. BJP leader GVL Narasimha Rao, former party MP and electoral analyst, said in a statement that the fall of the Congress began in 2014 only after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power. He said that the fact is that the Congress is on the path of decline since its best performance in 1984, when Rajiv Gandhi won more than 48 percent of the vote share and 414 out of 543 Lok Sabha seats. Its worst performance in the next three decades was recorded in 2014, when it won only 44 out of 543 seats with 19.5 percent vote share.
Congress collapse begins in 1989
He said that it cannot be the argument of Rahul Gandhi that before 2014, the Election Commission was conspiring against the Congress and was working for the BJP. He said that at that time Manmohan Singh was leading the Congress -led UPA government. Rahul Gandhi has been accusing the Election Commission of adding names in favor of BJP and removing the voter list by removing it. He also took out “Voter Rights Yatra” in Bihar against special intensive review of the voter list. Rao said that the Congress party’s long decline started from 1989 and continued till 2014 when Modi became Prime Minister. He cited the data of national and many states of many Lok Sabha elections to speak his point. He said that in order to grab public attention, Rahul Gandhi has been claiming that in his revelations, there will be a political power as much as atomic bomb or hydrogen bomb and will destroy the BJP led by Modi. The analysis of the trends of the previous elections shows that their claims are baseless.
Congress’s condition is pathetic in many states
He since 1984 in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh, Jyoti Basu and Mamta Banerjee in West Bengal, Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra, Lalu Prasad in Bihar and M. Karunanidhi and MK Stalin in Tamil Nadu, citing the attacks given to Congress by many regional leaders like M. Karunanidhi and MK Stalin asked whether Gandhi would call these leaders “vote thieves”. He said that similarly AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal and JMM leader Shibu Soren and then his son Hemant Soren played an important role in increasing their parties at the cost of Congress in Delhi and Jharkhand in the last few decades. He said that it was the Janata Dal led by VP Singh, which was important in reducing the number of Congress seats in the 1989 elections by 191, which led to the decades long collapse for the party. He asked whether Rahul Gandhi would consider VP Singh as “Vote Thief No. 1”. He said that the Congress has not recovered in many of these states and remains a “irrelevant” player. In the 1989 elections, the national vote-share of the Congress was 39.5 percent, and since then 2024 is 36.6, 28.8, 25.8, 28.3, 26.5, 28.6, 19.5, 19.7 and 21.4 percent. BJP leader Rao said that Rahul Gandhi can neither erase nor change historical facts.
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