Results moral defeat for Modi, Shah, says AJP

Guwahati: With the Congress poised to form government in Karnataka, ousting the BJP from its only southern perch, the Assam Jatiya Parishad on Saturday called it the “moral defeat” of PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah who led the saffron party’s election campaign there.
AJP president Lurinjyoti Gogoi congratulated the Congress for its performance in Karnataka and said “people of the southern state voted against spiralling inflation and unemployment”.
“The PM and the Union home minister had personally steered the BJP’s campaign there but the election results indicate that it is a moral defeat for them,” Gogoi said.
AJP general secretary Jagadish Bhuyan said people have given a “befitting reply to BJP’s politics of polarisation”. The “failure” of the BJP government in the state and the “alleged corruption charges” against Karnakata CM Basavaraj S Bommai led to “disillusionment among the electorate and they voted against the saffron party”, said the AJP, one of the opposition parties in Assam. PTI