‘Ktk results reflect Cong’s loss of credibility’

CPM general secy Prakash Karat said result of Ktk polls was a reflection of loss of credibility of Cong and UPA's performance.

The result of Karnataka Assembly poll was a reflection of the loss of credibility of the Congress party as well as the UPA government’s performance at the Centre, CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat.

“The Centre’s policies, particularly with regard to price rise and the crisis in agriculture sector has created resentment among the people who have rejected the Congress,” Karat, here to attend the CPI-M West Bengal state committee meeting, told party organ Ganashakti.

Stating that the BJP had succeeded in weakening the secular forces in Karnataka, Karat said that the saffron party had long been putting efforts to polarise the people on communal lines.

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BJP, he said, has reaped the benefits of its opportunistic alliance with JD (S) in the previous government.

BJP’s win was a warning to secular political parties who sought to reach an understanding with it for forming the government.

BJP has been able to form the government in a south Indian state on its own after securing 50 per cent seats in the assembly, he added.

Modi will address a rally in the district and open the Purnea airport that will provide air connectivity to several metro cities, fulfilling a longstanding demand in the Seemanchal region.

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