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NDA celebrates ouster of Lalu regime

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Crackers, sweets and victory hugs in BJP State headquarters to mark victory in Bihar

BHOPAL: There was jubilation in the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in the States on Tuesday afternoon in the wake of the National Democratic Alliance victory in the Bihar Assembly elections.

In Bhopal, The State BJP president, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Chief Minister Babulal Gaur and his ministerial colleagues along with a large number of party workers gathered at the BJP office here to celebrate the NDA victory in Bihar with crackers and victory hugs.

Mr. Chauhan said the Congress party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal of Lalu Prasad had suffered a humiliating defeat in Bihar. The election results should be seen as people's reply to the United Progressive Alliance Government's misrule at the Centre, he said.

In a statement issued here, the State BJP president said that "jungle raj" had come to an end in Bihar as the people of that State had rejected the pseudo-secular forces that were never tired of proclaiming from rooftops their "so-called commitment" to social justice.

Mr. Chauhan criticised the UPA Government's role in Bihar saying that the Congress-led Government at the Centre had misused the Governor's office to serve its wn interests. The Bihar Assembly had been wrongly dismissed, he said, adding that the Prime Minister should have resigned in the wake of the adverse remarks by the Supreme Court.

Mr. Chauhan said the Bihar election results had put a question mark over the credibility of the UPA Government.

The supporters of former State Chief Minister Uma Bharti are particularly excited by the Bihar results since Ms. Bharti was in charge of BJP's election campaign in that State. On Monday night when Ms. Bharti was leaving for Delhi, a large number of State MLAs and her supporters who had gathered at her residence were heard saying that Ms. Bharti's popularity would be reflected amply by the Bihar election results. Most of them also appeared confident that it would now be difficult for the party bosses to ignore their demand for re-inducting Ms. Bharti as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

Special Correspondent

in Chandigarh reports:

Hundreds of local Bharatiya Janata Party workers celebrated the landslide victory of the National Democratic Alliance in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha elections at the party office in Sector 33 here on Tuesday.

A festive atmosphere prevailed in the party office with the workers congratulating each other and distributing sweets. Crackers were also burst.

Local BJP chief Yash Pal Mahajan congratulated the people of Bihar for reposing their faith in the policies and programmes of the BJP-led NDA.

Former city MP and senior BJP leader, Satya Pal Jain, said that the victory of NDA in Bihar would certainly have an impact in other states and the NDA would certainly regain power in the elections whenever and wherever these are held.

He said that the rout was not only of Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad but also of the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the PM, Manmohan Singh, as they had projected Mr. Yadav as the "man of the present legacy'' in the run-up to the elections.

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