WHY WE LOST: WHAT LEADERS SAID ABOUT HARYANA, MAHA BYPOLLS

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Kailash Vijayavargiya, BJP General Secretary: "I can clearly see the shortcomings in our management of the Haryana elections. The BJP rebels fought elections and we failed to persuade them (to pull out)…"

Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former chief minister Congress, Haryana: "We would have won a full majority if we had more time."

Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad: “The Congress would have performed much better if Mr Hooda had been in action six months earlier”

Chief Minister of Punjab and Congress leader, Amrinder Singh: “We really won the show, with a little more effort we would have won."

Eknath Khadse, BJP leader: "I retained the seat in hostile conditions for several years, but the party lost it despite the situation being favourable. We will find out the reasons behind the defeat…i am unhappy that the BJP could not get desired results in North Maharashtra in the elections.”

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)’S in-charge of Maharashtra Ashok Siddharth: “Suresh Sakre contested assembly polls from Nagpur (North) against the wishes of the party and did not campaign for other candidates. He was defeated and the party too suffered”

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam: “Accountability needs to be fixed in the party. Who finalised the candidates for the seats in Mumbai and what efforts were taken to get them elected?"

Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis: "The two seats we regret losing are Satara and Parli. We were confident that Pankaja Munde would win. Some of our Ministers have also lost and we will analyse this in due course. We think the rebellion has cost us and we will also look into that."