New Delhi:A day after Bihar Assembly election results were out, giving the Congress 19 of the 70 seats it contested, the party on Wednesday flayed Grand Alliance partner CPI-MLL which had questioned its winning percentage.
Reacting to Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist Liberation leader Dipankar Bhattacharya, Congress West Bengal affairs incharge Jitin Prasada said: "Let me direct Dipankar ji's attention from Bihar to the 2016 Bengal Assembly elections wherein the Congress had a 50% strike rate by winning 44 seats as compared to the Left's 16.17% strike rate with 33 seats. At the end of the day, political alliances are formed on the basis of ideology and common goals."
Bhattacharya, whose CPI-MLL won 12 seats, told the media that the Congress had also to introspect as to why its position was bad in the electoral battlefield.