Expats celebrate victory in elections back home
Expatriates from India celebrated the victories of their parties in the recent elections held in the state of Kerala and Bihar.
Janatha Cultural Centre (JCC) Bahrain activists in Muharraq distributed sweets, expressing their joy at the landslide victory of the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in Bihar. JCC Central Committee Vice President U K Balan told DT News that the Bihar election result is a “big political blow” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“People have given their mandate against those forces which had disturbed communal harmony in the country,” he claimed.
The Grand Alliance on Sunday routed the BJP-led NDA in Bihar to score a landslide two-thirds majority in the state assembly giving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a third term in office in a battle in which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi staked his all.
Making a spectacular comeback after the severe drubbing in the last year’s Lok Sabha polls at the hands of Modi, the newly- formed JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance secured 178 seats
in the 243-member House. RJD emerged the leader of the pack with 80 seats while JD(U) bagged 71. Both the parties had contested 101 seats each. Congress also made impressive gains winning 27 seats out of 41. It had won only four seats last time.
The BJP-led NDA, for which Modi mounted an aggressive campaign addressing more than 30 rallies, bagged 58 seats. BJP on its own got 53 seats out of 157 it contested while its allies also put up a poor show. LJP, led by Ram Vilas Paswan, and RLSP of Upendra Kushwaha got two seats each. Former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM won only one of the two seats it contested and lost in all the 19 others.
Meanwhile the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI– M) -led Left Democratic Front (LDF) made a dramatic return to dominance at the grassroots in Kerala in a keenly contested local bodies’ elections, which have also pushed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the front as a claimant to the state’s bipolar political space.
In a clear reversal of political fortunes as compared to the 2010 elections, the opposition alliance was able to gain control of close to 551 of the 941 grama panchayats, 90 of the 152 block panchayats, 43 of the 87 municipalities, besides an upper hand in four out of the six Corporations in the southern state. Bahrain expats who support LDF in Kerala distributed sweets in Adliya.
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Expats in Adliya share halwa in celebration of the LDF victory in Kerala local body elections
Expats in Muharraq distribute sweets after the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance victory in Bihar
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