Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Gidugu Rudra Raju has described his party’s victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections as a slap in the BJP’s face, and has asserted that it is the result of the excellent teamwork led by party leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and Mallikarjuna Kharge.
Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ had changed the mood of the electorate in the Congress party’s favour so much that its vote share increased by 8% in spite of a “vicious campaign” unleashed by the BJP, and even Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roadshow failed in stemming the tide, Mr. Rudra Raju said while speaking to the media here on Saturday.
He said attempts to persecute Mr. Rahul Gandhi boomeranged on the BJP, which should learn the hard lesson that it stood a bleak chance of making inroads in the southern States.
