"Bihar results prove falsity of Vote Chor, Gaddi Chod slur"

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Nov 15: BJP Manipur Pradesh has be-littled Congress party’s Vote Chor, Gaddi Chod campaign saying that the results of Bihar Assembly election have proved the falsity of the campaign.
Speaking to media persons at their Nityaipat Chuthek, Keishampat office today, BJP Manipur Pradesh vice president Ch Chida-nanda said that BJP re- mained silent to the intensive Vote Chor, Gaddi Chod campaign carried out by the Congress party considering the current situation of Manipur.
Nonetheless, BJP was waiting for an appropriate time to give befitting replies to the many false charges made by Congress. The results of Bihar Assembly election declared on Friday  have given a befitting reply on how true the Congress party’s Vote Chor, Gaddi Chod slur was, Chidananda said.
The elections results have proved beyond doubt that all the charges made by the Congress against BJP are baseless, he said.
The campaign is just like a surgical operation where the operation failed and the patient died, he said.
Since Rahul Gandhi became the leader of Congress party, the party has been suffering humiliating defeats  in elections held in several States of the country. The Bihar election was the 95th defeat of Rahul Gandhi’s leadership, the BJP Manipur Pradesh vice-president said.
Although the Congress party has been talking about peace and normalcy in Manipur, it has a strong desire to hold election in Manipur, he said.
The series of meetings held by Congress party recently in several Assembly segments exposed their craving for power. People know Congress party’s intention to wrest power by taking advantage of the prevailing situation of Mani- pur, Chidananda said.
Saying that the Congress party has been rejected at the National level, Chida-nanda asked Congress lea- ders of Manipur to give up the hope of grabbing power through fresh election.
He said that the Congress party under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi may suffer its 100th defeat when the Manipur Legislative Assembly election is held.
In the political history of India, an incident of stealing votes happened in the Manipur Legislative election of 1990.
As the votes were being counted at the DC office, Lamphelpat on February 14 night same year, one MPP candidate was poised to win the Singjamei seat but the then Congress Government tried to ‘steal’ votes to win the same seat and it led to the burning of the counting hall, Chidananda said.
Ballot papers of 12 Assembly segments which were yet to be counted and ballot papers of 11 other Assembly segments the counting of which had already begun were destroyed by the fire, he said.     
He then appealed to ex-Minister Okram Joy and CLP leader Okram Ibobi to tell Congress workers how the counting hall got burnt.  
Even as re-election for the 12 Assembly segments of which ballot papers were burnt was yet to be held, Congress leader Rajesh Pilot came to Manipur and stake claim to form Government on the ground that Congress party was victorious in 23 seats out of 46 seats which had already gone to polls.
People have not forgotten how the Congress party tried to form Government forcibly even as election to 12 seats were yet to be held, Chidananda said.
The Congress party’s Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod campaign was a chicanery and its efforts to build election tempo and return to power are a pipe dream, he said.