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Following the declaration of results for 28 Legislative Council seats across four states, the Bharatiya Janata Party targeted the Congress over its electoral performance. The elections were conducted via ballot papers, prompting BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, to criticise the Congress's prior vote theft allegations and ballot paper demands. In counter-attacks, Congress challenged the central government to conduct upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections using paper ballots, while maintaining demands regarding the Election Commission. Meanwhile, the BJP faced setbacks after losing key council seats, including Varanasi to the Samajwadi Party, which triggered local protests over counting processes, as well as Nagpur. Analysts noted that both parties face introspection, with Congress struggling despite the use of ballot papers—including losses in Karnataka—and the BJP conceding crucial strongholds in Uttar Pradesh.

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00:00Congress managing to win one seat of the 28 MLC seats in the four states,
00:04giving the BJP fresh ammunition to mock the party over its boat theft allegations.
00:09BJP pointed out that these elections were held using ballot papers,
00:12questioning the Congress' performance then.
00:15Prime Minister Narendra Modi mocked the Congress, asking how many seats it had won.
00:19Union ministers joined the attack.
00:21Home Minister Amit Shah takes a swipe at Rahul Gandhi
00:23and says he should ask perhaps the ballot box then to resign.
00:28The Congress hit back, daring Modi to hold all the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly polls using ballot papers.
00:35It's also reiterated its demands on the SIR and CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation.
00:40Meanwhile, BJP workers protested in Varanasi,
00:44alleging irregularities in the vote counting after the Samajwadi party's victory
00:48and accusing the observer of facilitating malpractice.
01:23Congress zero-hate, Congress zero-hate, Congress kabhi hero benin nahi sakti,
01:28और राउल गांदी लीडर बनने के बाद हमारे सबसे बड़े brand ambassador ये राउल गांदी है.
01:34जितना ज्यादा वो नौटंगी करेंगे, जितना ज्यादा रस्ते पे बैटके तमाशा करेंगे,
01:40देश की जनता है, ये हमारे प्रधान मंत्री नरेद्र मुदी जी के ही साथ है.
01:54और जैसे इस चुनाओं में फिर एक बार दिखाए गया है कि देश की जनता ये नरेद्र मुदी जी के
02:00साथ में है.
02:00इसलिए मुझे लगता है अब राउल गांदी जी को पैक अप करके भारगाओ के किसी देश में जाना चीए.
02:05काशी ने तो साफ संदेश पूरी उत्तर प्रदेश को दे दिया है. पहले अयोध्या ने दिया, अब काशी विश्वनात ने
02:14दिया.
02:14बारतिय जनतापाटी का उत्रप्रदेश में जाना तय है और उसका उधारन है लोकसभा में आयुद्या और विधान सभा से पहले
02:24काशी।
02:25जब महाकाल का अशिरवाद हो शीराम सब्राइब यह चेरवाद हो तो उत्रप्रदेश में हमें जीतने से कोई रोक नहीं सकता।
02:31foreign
02:38foreign
02:40foreign
02:47foreign
03:10with more details and context to the MLC poll results
03:14that have come to the forefront now.
03:16Piyush, well, if we take a look at the results,
03:19I think both sides need to sit down
03:22and need to understand what's happened.
03:25Because even on the BJP's part,
03:27they've lost two crucial seats.
03:29One being the Nagpur seat,
03:30which is something that went back to the Congress,
03:33and the other being the seat in Varanasi.
03:36So they have to contemplate what went wrong there.
03:40And on the Congress's part,
03:41I think given that all the results came out
03:44and all of this is happening amid the protests
03:47that they've been holding against the CEC,
03:50against the Election Commission,
03:51complaining against the entire process of elections,
03:54this was a ballot system.
03:55And still it's given quite a different mandate
03:58with people showing their faith,
04:00mostly with the BJP itself.
04:02So I think they perhaps need to re-strategize
04:05and also understand what they are doing wrong
04:07and why is it that they can't instill faith in the people?
04:12Well, that's right.
04:13I like to rightly mention that, yes,
04:14it's for both the sides to sit back and introspect.
04:17Why?
04:18Because Varanasi is considered as a bastion of BJP.
04:22For the very long time,
04:24we have seen BJP has been in power there.
04:26And when, after Ayodhya,
04:28we are seeing how another setback can be seen
04:31in Varanasi where BJP has lost MLC seats,
04:35no doubt that BJP will introspect on this.
04:38On the other side,
04:40we are also witnessing how Congress has been able to win,
04:43has not been able to win even one seat,
04:46which is certainly casting aspersions over the performance
04:49and the kind of claims which Congress was making.
04:52Now Congress has lost,
04:53in the state of Karnataka where it has its government,
04:56also Congress has lost over the elections
05:00which have happened over using ballot paper.
05:04You would remember that Congress has been demanding
05:06that elections must happen using ballot paper.
05:09Despite not even able to win one seat,
05:12we are now seeing how Congress leaders coming out
05:15and saying that if that is the case,
05:18then why don't other elections,
05:20upcoming assembly elections of UP and Punjab
05:22and other states also happen using ballot paper.
05:26So we are now seeing how it's very important
05:29for both the sides to introspect.
05:31Congress has not been able to win even one seat
05:33and on that entire front,
05:35we are also witnessing how Abhin Marendra Modi
05:37is taking a jibe at Congress party.
05:40He also mentioned that all these elections happen
05:42using ballot paper
05:44and still Congress has not been able to win even one seat.
05:48Absolutely.
05:49They haven't been able to win one seat in Karnataka
05:52where they are holding the government.
05:53The only seat they have now finally come out to win
05:55is in Nagpur.
05:56And that's the only one victory that they can claim.
06:00So yes, it's a major introspection,
06:03time to introspect for them as well
06:04that it's a system that they've been demanding,
06:07the ballot system,
06:08and yet this is the result.
06:09Bhivsh, thank you for putting that into context
06:11for our viewers.

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