Congress rakes up its own defeat to boost morale!

December 07, 2013 16:57

With most opinion and exit polls predicting a rout for it in four states, the Congress has sought to shift the discourse from assembly polls to Lok Sabha elections, citing past trends to buttress the point that provincial polls do not have a bearing on general elections.

"The BJP should be cautious in celebrations, even if opinion and exit polls are true. We won all these four states in 1998, 1999. LS results were an eye opener for us," AICC general secretary in-charge for Delhi Shakeel Ahmed said on Twitter.

The Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA had come to power in 1999 even after the Congress won assembly polls in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh prior to it.

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