AMN /New Delhi
Delhi Congress President Ajay Maken today announced his resignation from the post owning moral responsibility for the bad performance of the party in Delhi Municipal elections.
Talking to the media, Mr Maken said though Congress was beginning to retain its traditional vote-bank but still he expected better performance by the party.
Mr Maken said, “I take responsibility for the defeat of the Congress and I am going to resign as Delhi Congress President.
’’ Mr Maken said that after the party’s debacle in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in Delhi and in the 2015 Assembly elections, where the party failed to win a single seat, he had made efforts to win back the traditional vote-bank of the party over the last two years.
“Over the last two years, we had made efforts to win back the traditional vote-bank of the Congress.
MCD poll outcome proof of people’s complete trust in Modi Govt: Amit Shah
The BJP today said the results of the MCD polls, in which it is all set to trample the AAP, were a proof of the absolute trust of the people in the work done by the Modi Government.
“Through the UP Assembly and Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections, people have given a clear message that politics of negativity and excuses will not do, but it is the constructive approach taking all together that will take the country forward,’’ BJP Chief Amit Shah said reacting to the trends of the counting for the MCD elections.
“I thank the people of Delhi for the seal they have put on the good work done by the Modi Government in the last three years,’’ the BJP Chief, who is on a tour of West Bengal, said in Kolkata.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who also campaigned extensively during the elections, said here that the trends of the results showed a complete loss of people’s confidence in the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP Government in Delhi.
“This must be a lesson to the ruling party in Delhi that chicanery and tricks of last elections were no longer going to work for ever,’’ he said.