Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the most important political analysis emerging from the results of the State Assembly polls is a significant setback to the Congress Party.
Noting that the Congress lost in Kerala and Assam, Jaitley in a Facebook post ‘The Election Results 2016’, said, “In Kerala it lost because its government was mired in corruption scams. In Assam, its traditional policy of encouraging illegal immigration as a source of vote bank, invited popular wrath.”
The Finance Minister expressed the hope that the election results will give the Centre an “opportunity to work closely with all the five elected State Governments for the larger welfare of the people.”
Jaitley also stressed that the Left has become ideologically irrelevant globally and said, “Extreme positions espoused by a few in the universities of Jadhavpur and JNU cannot be the mainstream agenda of India.”
“The political and economic models that they espoused have been widely rejected,” he said.