Issues of state different from national ones: Jaitley on poll results

December 11, 2018 22:03

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley reacts to assembly polls results in five states:

"I think result was certainly not as expected and it's an opportunity to pause and analyse, for results were not as per expected.

"In both Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh we were in power for 15 years and we have done well. I don't think there was anti-incumbency but fatigue factor does come in.

"Issues in state elections are entirely different. We won all these states in December 2003 and lost the general election in 2004. Therefore these results don't reflect automatically.

"The 2019 elections will be around the performance of the central government and leadership of PM Modi.

"The election issue really will be, do we need a tried and tested leadership and government in place or we want some kind of an unstable non-ideological coalition which is bound to splinter away sooner than later," Jaitley said. -- ANI

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