New Delhi: In the party event here on Tuesday, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said that his party has won assembly elections in Manipur and Goa but the BJP threw money to “steal the mandate”.
His comments came roughly an hour after the Supreme Court ordered a floor test in Goa on Thursday but didn’t stop BJP’s Manohar Parrikar from taking oath as chief minister this evening.
Talking to media, Gandhi said “Our fight is against BJP’s ideology, what they did in Manipur and Goa is exactly the ideology we are fighting against”.
“Out of five states, BJP won two, we won three. In two of the states we won, democracy is being undermined by them, using financial power and money”, he added.
The Congress is the single largest party in the 40 members assembly with 17 seats, but the BJP which has 13 MLAs claims a majority with support from two smaller parties and independents.
Congress is just three short of the halfway mark of 31 in Manipur but the BJP has already named a chief ministerial pick and claims to have cobbled together a majority coalition.