Senior congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of stealing seats in Manipur and Goa. He joined the chorus of Congress leaders in accusing the BJP of not respecting the people’s mandate and, instead, staking claims to form the government in Goa and Manipur.
“Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 13 and 21 seats in Goa and Manipur respectively and got the 2nd position in both the states. A party that comes 2nd has no right to form the government. They are stealing elections in Manipur and Goa”, Chidambaram tweeted.
His comment came after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staked claim to form the government in Manipur and Goa with the support of regional parties, where BJP failed to emerge as the single largest party. The BJP stitched up a rainbow coalition of regional parties such as MGP and GFP who wanted Manohar Parrikar, Defense Minister as the Chief Minister. BJP also claimed to have support from these local parties. Goa Governer Mr. Mridula has appointed Parrikar as Chief Minister after submitting the support of 21 MLAs; 13 from BJP; 3 from GFP, 3 from MGP and 2 independents.
In Manipur also, despite the Congress having 28 seats, the BJP staked claim to form the government. There also they have taken support from Local parties; 4 seats each from NPP and NPF; and one from LJP and another one from congress. This takes it total to 31 seats, which is sufficient enough to form the government in Manipur of 60 MLAs. In Manipur, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has met the Governor and claimed that they enjoyed the support from these 3 small NDA constituents, a Trinamool Congress legislator, and a Congress MLA, taking its tally to 32 in the Sixty-member assembly.
The Congress had also accused Bharatiya Janata Party of “abducting” an Independent legislator from Imphal and taking him to an “unknown destination” surrounded the struggle between the parties to lay stake to form the government in Manipur. Another Congress leader, Digvijay Singh, said it is not the real victory; it is the victory of money power over people’s power.
Targeting the BJP, Singh also said, “I apologize to the Goa people as we couldn’t get the support to form the Goa Government”.
He said the Congress will continue to fight against negative forces of “money power politics” in Goa. “Since 1947 the Congress never involved in any negative politics and didn’t accept any negative strategy”.
However, Former J& K chief minister Omar Abdullah took a dig at the Congress. This is not automatic. In 2002 National Congress was the single largest party but Governor called Congress & PDP because he was satisfied they had the numbers to form the Government.
Afterall. it does not matter to BJP party what congress leaders are saying, BJP’s only focus is to form their government in both the states- Goa and Manipur. Already it has been decided and Mr. Manohar Parrikar to take oath tomorrow as Goa Chief Minister.
