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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi should become more accommodative, former Himachal Pradesh chief minister and veteran BJP leader Shanta Kumar has advised, a month after the Lok Sabha poll results humbled the party as it won fewer seats than in 2019 and what was predicted...
In an interview to ThePrint Wednesday, Kumar, one of the founding members of the BJP, said the 2024 mandate has broken the arrogance of BJP leaders after the party in power at the Centre took many uncalled-for decisions over 10 years and with a brute majority...
Now, PM Modi should make changes according to the mandate and become more accommodative, Kumar asserted, while lauding the BJP and Modi government for winning a third straight term...
He was referring to last months bypolls on six assembly seats in Congress-ruled Himachal which were necessitated by the disqualification of six rebel Congress legislators who voted for the BJPs Harsh Mahajan in the Rajya Sabha election earlier this year, leading to the defeat of Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi...
Speaking about this years Lok Sabha elections, in which the BJPs seat tally reduced from 303 to 240, and what led to the fall in numbers for the party, the former CM said the people had given the right mandate to the BJP for the third time but had also ended the arrogance of party leaders by giving lesser seats and making the opposition stronger...
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