00:00Let's begin with breaking news that's coming in.
00:02Prime Minister Modi has taken to social media to comment on the MLC election results
00:07and the fact that Congress has won zero of the 28 seats that were up for grabs
00:13and highlighting the fact that these were in fact elections held on ballot paper,
00:18something the Congress has constantly been demanding because they say they have no faith in EVMs.
00:22But here's what the Prime Minister has said, that this election was held on ballot paper.
00:27Guess how many seats Congress won?
00:29He's put out that post on social media along with an emoji with the lens,
00:35almost as if they're hunting for how many seats the Congress has won.
00:39So this is the tongue-in-cheek comment by Prime Minister Modi, a jibe clearly at the Congress.
00:45The BJP has been flagging this very issue because in the last few months
00:48where we've seen this entire showdown over SIR,
00:51where we've seen this entire showdown over the EC
00:53and over the use of EVMs by the Congress,
00:56who constantly said go back to ballot paper,
00:59the BJP saying that irrespective, you are unable to deliver electorally,
01:04you're unable to perform.
01:06And so essentially coming back to the narrative that they've been pushing forward,
01:10that all of this vote-shory claims, the EVMs are all excuses
01:13because the Congress has failed to deliver electorally.
01:16Let me take this across to Aishwarya Paliwal for more details.
01:19Aishwarya, the Prime Minister now leading the charge against the Congress,
01:22highlighting that of all of the seats apart for grabs, the Congress was a duck out.
01:31Well, definitely, you know, we have seen how it's the Congress party,
01:34the main opposition party, Rakshita.
01:36They have been in the national capital, out on the streets, gathering a lot of support.
01:41You know, we have seen how thousands of people, in fact, have been coming to the national capital
01:45and they all have been pointing fingers at the BJP and the Election Commission
01:50and saying that we are not winning elections because of you.
01:53The Prime Minister said that these were held on ballot paper.
01:57Now, these were not elections that were being held on the EVMs
02:00because the EVMs is also something, Rakshita, we have seen the opposition often raise fingers at.
02:05These elections were held on ballot paper.
02:07And despite that, all the MLC elections were won by the Bharti Janta Party.
02:12The Congress was not able to open, you know, the account.
02:17Now, this is something which is a telling tale of how they are managing elections.
02:21The Prime Minister, the last line of his tweet, he very clearly says,
02:25guess how many the Congress won?
02:27The answer is zero.
02:28They have not been able to win even a single seat.
02:31So, this is a telling thing, especially because these elections were held on ballot paper and not on the EVMs.
02:36Okay, as we speak, Aishwara, there is tracking the rally being led by the BJP called the Save Democracy March
02:43where they're countering the Congress on the issue of SIR and all of, in fact, the protests,
02:49the street stairs that we've been seeing by the opposition.
02:51Thanks, Aishwarya, for those details.
