With the BJP claiming to have emerged as the "third force" in its next frontier Tamil Nadu, the State's Chief Minister and DMK supremo M K Stalin has said it is like a boy scoring 90 points in an examination, the second student getting 50 and the third managing just a 10-point score.
He also said it was wrong to assume that the BJP won massively in the recently held assembly elections in five States as its tally declined in Uttar Pradesh and its 10 ministers, including one deputy chief minister, lost there, while several key leaders in Goa and the chief minister in Uttarakhand also had to suffer defeat.
"Taking into account the real field conditions of the five State election results, I'll say it is negative for the BJP," Mr. Stalin told PTI in an interview.
