Former chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela on Tuesday called the BJP’s defeat in the three states of Hindi heartland — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh — “a slap on the face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his policies’’.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Vaghela said,” “During campaigning, Modi told people that they will be voting for “Modi” and not for local leaders. “He (Modi) only gave speeches all these years. A PM is supposed to run the country, not campaign for his party on our money. The results are just a trailer. BJP and Modi will get the real taste in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections when people will throw BJP out of power… UPA-III will become a reality, and I am sure that a coalition government of 20-25 parties would perform far better than this government,” Vaghela, who had quit the Congress last year, added.