[Marxistindia] On recent election results

[news from the cpi(m)]

December 8, 2022

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

On Recent Election Results

 

Of the three elections that have taken place, the BJP has got a sweeping
victory in Gujarat. But it has lost the other two elections - the Himachal
Pradesh assembly polls and the Delhi municipal corporation election.

 

In Gujarat, the BJP's fifth successive victory is a confirmation of the deep
communal polarization that has been engineered by the BJP-RSS over the last
three decades.  The projection of a pan-Hindu identity along with the
rhetoric about Gujarati pride have overcome the more vital issues like price
rise, unemployment and poor public health and educational facilities.

 

In Himachal Pradesh, the Congress victory constitutes a stinging defeat for
the BJP which had put in all its resources and state machinery to try to
retain power.  The popular discontent over BJP misrule prevailed.

 

In Delhi, the elections to the unified municipal corporation has resulted in
the Aam Aadmi Party defeating the BJP which had held the corporation for the
past fifteen years.  The people of Delhi have withstood all the
blandishments and maneouvres of the BJP and the Central government.

 

The results of Himachal Pradesh and Delhi have exposed the vulnerability of
the BJP despite its huge money power and resources.  The limits of the
much-touted Modi factor have also come to the fore.  

 

The opposition parties should draw the proper lessons from these results and
draw up plans to put up an effective united opposition to the BJP state-wise
by marshaling all the forces.

 

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