New Delhi : The BJP’s reverses in assembly by-elections marks the waning of the Narendra Modi “euphoria” and shows voters are getting disenchanted with the new regime, the CPI-M said Thursday.
CPI-M mouthpiece “People’s Democracy” said in an editorial that the Modi government and the BJP “suffered a major setback in the recently held by-elections in Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab.
“Of a total of 18 seats, the BJP could only win 10,” it said, adding that it bagged only six of the 10 seats that went to the polls in Bihar where – like elsewhere in the country – it swept the Lok Sabha polls.
Both in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, it lost one sitting seat each, it added. “This marks a significant trend of reversal from the patterns seen in the general elections and the waning of the Modi ‘euphoria’.”
Earlier, in by-elections in Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party lost all the three seats that went to the polls.
“These results … are a pointer to the fact that people have realised … that the real agenda of the Modi government is completely different from the issues on which the (Lok Sabha) election campaign was mounted,” said the Communist Party of India-Marxist.