New Delhi: Reacting to some Congress supporters and social media accounts aligned with the party interpreting the Trinamool Congress’s loss in West Bengal as an opportunity for the grand old party to reassert its influence within the INDIA bloc and regain ground in states where they had previously lost influence to regional parties, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday urged them to “put petty politics aside”.
In a sternly worded message, he wrote that “Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC’s loss. They need to understand this clearly — the theft of Assam and Bengal’s mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy.”
Thus Gandhi urged them to “put petty politics aside” and asserted that “this is not about one party or another. This is about India.”
Late on Monday evening, when results for West Bengal had shown BJP headed for a landslide win and TMC lagging, Gandhi had joined voice with state chief minister and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee in claiming that “more than 100 seats were stolen in Bengal”.
In a post on “X”, he had written that “Assam and Bengal are clear cases of the election being stolen by the BJP with the support of the EC. We agree with Mamata ji. More than 100 seats were stolen in Bengal.”
Gandhi who had levelled allegations against the BJP-led Centre of vote theft earlier, also noted that “we have seen this playbook before: Madhya Pradesh. Haryana. Maharashtra. Lok Sabha 2024 etc”. He charged that there had been vote theft and theft of institutions alike.
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