"Congress paid heavy price for joining hands with Sena," says BJP MLA Ashish Shelar

BJP leader Ashish Shelar, on Wednesday, took a veiled attack at the Congress for joining hands with Thackeray-led Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. He also claimed the reason for party’s defeat in Bihar Assembly elections.

Slamming Congress’ decision, Ashish Shelar took to Twitter and said, “The party held a "bow and arrow" in its hand in Maharashtra, and  paid heavy price for it in Bihar.”

"Bihar's people have rejected the Yuvraj of Jungle-raj who had joined hands with Congress. Similarly, a prince here in Maharashtra with pretentious love for jungle has joined hands with corrupt Congress. A sensible person should get the message from Bihar polls," Shelar tweeted hinting at BJP’s win in Maharashtra too.

काँगसने महाराष्ट्रात "हातात" "धनुष्यबाण" धरला, त्याचा ठासून फटका बिहारमध्ये बसला...
आता...
महाराष्ट्रात सुध्दा जनतेच्या "घड्याळाचे"
काय सांगावे टायमिंग...?

पंचायत ते पार्लमेंट मॅन ऑफ द मॅच पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदीच!
 त्यांच्यासह नितीश कुमारजी, देवेंद्रजीं फडणवीस यांचे अभिनंदन! pic.twitter.com/e0kK3EqfPg

— Adv. Ashish Shelar - ॲड. आशिष शेलार (@ShelarAshish) November 11, 2020

He also took a dig at the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which is also a part of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government along with the Congress, saying, “You never know the timing of NCP and its moves.”

On the results of the Bihar polls in which the BJP-JD(U) alliance retained power in a tight contest against the Grand Alliance of the RJD and the Congress, Shelar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the "man of the match" of the polls. "Be it a panchayat or parliament (elections), man of the match is Narendra Modi. I congratulate (Bihar CM) Nitish Kumar and (Bihar poll) in-charge Devendra Fadnavis for the same," he tweeted.

भ्रष्टाचारी काँग्रेस सोबत सलगी केलेलेल्या "जगंलराज का युवराज" ला बिहारच्या जनतेने नाकरले..

महाराष्ट्रात पण भ्रष्टाचारी काँग्रेस सोबत "जंगलाचे बेगडी प्रेमी युवराज" युती करुन बसलेत.
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मा.पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी,
नितीश कुमारजी
आणि देवेंद्रजींचे
 अभिनंदन!

— Adv. Ashish Shelar - ॲड. आशिष शेलार (@ShelarAshish) November 11, 2020

A flashback at the final vote count, the JDU (43) and the BJP (74) had secured 125 seats, while the RJD (75) and the Congress (19) bagged 110 seats. Particulary, in this election, the RJD led by Tejaswi Yadav managed to win 75 seats, trailing the BJP. However, his ally Congress (19) did not perform as expected in this election and their grand alliance was left behind by only a few seats.