00:00Congress Chief Malik Arjun Kargay's first reaction on the Congress-MLC route.
00:05Congress Chief Malik Arjun Kargay insists on ballot paper polls.
00:09So after MLC pulled a battle across four states, Kargay dares commit to ballot paper polls.
00:14Out of 28 MLC seats, Congress managed to win just one in Maharashtra.
00:19And remember, Prime Minister Modi also took a jive at the Congress Party.
00:23He questioned Congress Party's poor performance and he said that,
00:27guess how many seats did the Congress win?
00:30And at that time, the Congress had not won any seats.
00:33But now they have been able to win a single seat in Maharashtra's Nagpur.
00:39But now Malik Arjun Kargay, despite the poor performance of the Congress Party in the MLC polls,
00:43which were held using ballot papers, he's insisting that ballot papers should be used in all the elections.
00:51And my colleague Moshmi is now joining us on the story.
00:54Moshmi, despite the performance that we've seen of the Congress Party in the MLC polls,
00:59in which they have been able to win just one seat out of the 28 in four states,
01:05the Congress President is adamant and is insisting on the use of ballot papers in all the polls.
01:14Let's take that question straight to John Brittas and we'll seek his reaction on that, sir.
01:20There is a lot of debate over ballot paper.
01:22And now Mr. Kargay has also demanded that elections should happen on the ballot.
01:27While the BJP is pointing out the dismal performance of the Congress,
01:33one out of 28 in the MLC seat elections.
01:35It's very interesting that the Prime Minister commented on the MLC elections in Karnataka
01:43and he went on to say that ballot papers have not helped the Congress Party.
01:49So now it is all the more important for Prime Minister to support our cause of bringing back the ballot.
01:55So if he feels that it's not going to help the opposition and the Congress Party or the India Bloc,
02:02let him forthwith take a decision that ballots will be reintroduced.
02:07So if he thinks that it's not going to benefit Congress Party,
02:11it should be all the more important for him to reintroduce ballot.
02:13Sir, you are spinning a complete web.
02:17The Prime Minister or the BJP, Deba, implies that ballot or no ballot, EVM or ballot,
02:23Congress is going to lose and they are crying foul.
02:26That's what the attack is as far as opposition is concerned.
02:31I understand.
02:32For the first time I am seeing the Prime Minister of this country
02:35commending on MLC elections which had two lakh voters.
02:43Those people who participated in the voting in the MLC elections in Karnataka
02:47was hardly two lakh people out of 4.5 crore voters there.
02:55Could you ever imagine a Prime Minister of this country commending about that?
02:59Then he should actually commend about the by-elections that happened,
03:03local self-cordies by-elections that happened in Kerala.
03:06It also had more or less this number.
03:08In that by-elections, LDF got 46%, UDF got 40%, NDA was nowhere.
03:16So he should not selectively come on to vote elections in this country.
03:20All right, not me.
03:20So that is how the Congress Party is still defined.
03:24They are still insisting that how ballot papers should be used,
03:27not just in MLC polls, but in fact in all the elections.
03:30That is what Congress Chief Malik Arjun Kargay is saying
03:33despite the poor performance of the Congress Party in the MLC polls.
