New Delhi, Oct 8 (UNI) The Congress on Tuesday congratulated the people of Jammu and Kashmir for giving a clear manadate to the National Conference and Indian National Congress alliance in the Assembly election.
The party hailed the victory, saying the top most priority of the alliance government would be restoration of statehood.
Congress also rejected the Haryana election results as “unexpected, unacceptable and a defeat for democracy”. The party will be approaching the Election Commission of India with serious complaints that have come from across the state about anomalies in counting of votes.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, senior party leaders Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera maintained that the election results in Haryana were totally in contravention of the ground realities and public sentiment was for change and transformation.
Thanking the people of Jammu and Kashmir for their decisive mandate to the NC-INC alliance, the party leaders said that the coalition government will be transparent and answerable.
They said, the top most priority of the government will be restoration of the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
“The people of Jammu and Kashmir have given a clear and categorical verdict in favour of the NC-INC alliance”, they said, while pointing out how the BJP tried till last minute to manipulate and cobble up a majority by various means.
“People of JK have defeated the mischievous designs of the BJP to engineer a majority of their own”, Jairam Ramesh remarked.
Rejecting the Haryana results, Khera claimed that there were specific complaints about the possible manipulations of the EVMs.
He said, there were several other serious complaints which were being collected and in the coming days the party will approach the Election Commission of India.
"Results in Haryana are totally unexpected, completely surprising and counter intuitive going against ground reality and what the people of Haryana had made their mind for which was for change and transformation”, Ramesh said, while adding, “it is not possible for us to accept the results that have been announced today”.
“Chapter on Haryana is not complete, it will continue”, Jairam Ramesh remarked, adding, “Congress has been made to lose by misuse of means and people’s sentiments were different as the ground reality was in favour of change and transformation”.
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