The Shiv Sena criticised ally BJP for the second consecutive day on Saturday, asking it “not to grab all credit” for the results of the assembly elections in five states.
The BJP could win only Assam, said the Shiv Sena, while the Left front bagged Kerala, Trinamool Congress swept West Bengal, AIADMK managed to retain Tamil Nadu and the Congress-DMK alliance accounted for Puducherry.
“It is erroneous to say that the people have wholeheartedly supported the performance of the BJP government at the Centre in the past two years,” the Sena said in a sharp editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana .
“If that was so, then besides Assam the people of the other four states should also have endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, its vision, its policies.”
That did not happen and the fact was that in each of the four other states — Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry — the parties fought the elections on their own independent local agendas which helped them emerge victorious, said the Shiv Sena. —IANS
