UPA Celebrates; NDA Sulks
Patna: July 23, 2008
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UPA Celebrates; NDA Sulks
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Photo by Anupam Singh |
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UPA leaders and party activists in Patna on Wednesday, despite the oppositions' allegations of vote-buying involving crores of rupees, regaled in the victory in the Tuesday trust vote by lighting firecrackers and distributing sweets to each other describing the win as 'historic' and a 'thumping win for the democracy'.
Leaders of the Congress, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), amidst playing of drums, took out a victory rally from Ashok Rajpath and lighted firecrackers at Dak Bungalow Crossing.
At the RJD office in Patna, there was an atmosphere of jubilation as though the UPA had scored a convincing victory in the Lok Sabha elections. Ecstatic leaders wasted no time in opening the political promise chest saying now crores of youths would be able to get jobs and find vocations of their choice while the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies would be reduced to non-existent in the next Parliamentary elections.
Meanwhile, the BJP in Patna on Wednesday burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi calling them 'corrupt to the core' and leaders without any conscience.
Calling it a blotch on the Indian history, R. R. Kanaujia (MLA), said never in the history of India such huge amount of money was distributed to buy votes. Demanding a CBI investigation into the money-for-vote charges, the BJP leaders said they would stage a statewide dharna at party's district headquarters in Bihar to protest the corrupt practices of the Congress and its allies at the Center.
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