New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday claimed Congress is not in contention in 20 of the 60 seats in poll-bound Manipur as people have seen through Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh’s “game of abetting the state’s blockade to polarise votes”.
Rejecting speculation that the ongoing blockade has harmed its bid to capture power in the state for the first time, BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav, who is handling the state polls, said lotus will bloom there after Assam and Arunachal, two states in the region where it is in power.
He claimed that Congress was in fight in only 40 seats, which are in the valley, while BJP’s main challengers in the 20 hill seats are NPF and other local parties. Asked about Irom Sharmila’s allegations that she was offered over Rs 36 cr by BJP to contest election against the CM, he termed these “malicious and an absolute lie”. (PTI)
