Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated reason behind Congress party’s loss in Gujarat Election

The Congress conducted a three-day long conclave to analyze the election elections results. The conclave will end on Saturday.

Both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress continue to do “post-mortem” of the Gujarat Assembly elections, the results of which were declared on Monday.

While the BJP won the elections in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with 99 seats, the Congress bagged 77 seats in the 182-member Gujarat Legislative Assembly.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated that the grand old party lost the elections to the BJP because it failed to connect with the urban voters.

Singh made the remark during the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting chaired by Rahul for the first time as the party president. In fact, the former PM also campaigned in Gujarat alongside Rahul where he spoke against demonetization and the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

While explaining the defeat of the Congress in Gujarat due to failure to garner urban votes, Singh gave the example of 2009 Lok Sabha elections when the Congress was able to do well in urban areas.

In fact, during the 2009 parliamentary elections, the Congress won 34 of the 57 parliamentary seats in big metros. The grand old party also won a majority of the 144 Lok Sabha seats in the country’s smaller cities and towns.

In the recently concluded Gujarat polls, the BJP won 36 of the 42 urban seats and the Congress achieved victory only in six seats.