'People have rejected the politics of polarisation'

September 16, 2014 20:46

The Congress today termed the results of the assembly by-polls, in which the BJP suffered major reverses, as "good omen" for the secular forces and said it should ring alarm bells in the saffron party as people have rejected the "politics of polarisation".

Saying that "Modi (government's) honeymoon period with the people was over", party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed sought to portray the verdict in Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP could win only three of 11 assembly seats while rest going to the Samajwadi Party, as "the vote against the BJP more than in favour of any party".

He, at the same time, acknowledged that the Congress could not perform as per its expectations in the Hindi state by not winning a single seat, but reminded that in the Lok Sabha elections too, it had won only in two of the 80 parliamentary constituencies.

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