Karnataka defeat a slap in the face of Modi and Amit Shah : VS

The veteran Communist leader V.S.Achuthanandhan minced no words striking out at BJP and their defeat in Karnataka to secure the rule. He said that BJP’s defeat in Karnataka was a slap in the face of Modi and Amit Shah. The clandestine moves by Modi and Amit Shah to butcher democracy using money and power have been totally demolished.

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VS Achuthanandan opined that the Karnataka defeat is a harbinger of 2019 elections.

The lesson that Karnataka has given is that if democratic secular parties in the country join together, BJP and Sanghparivar can be easily defeated, he said. In his statement, he stressed the need to form a wider alliance of democratic, secular parties.