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The unexpectedly resounding victory of the Congress party, in India's general election, has highlighted that people in India have rejected the rather communal BJP. This election has also seen the crumbling of the Leftists in their very own citadel---West Bengalas Mamata's Trinamul Congress decimated them. Now as experts have opined, a Congress led government would be better for Bangladesh in terms of solving some of the unresolved issues, issues of great importance, with India like water-sharing, maritime boundary, skirmishes between the BDR and the BSF, trade deficits etc.
Another important thing that political parties, in our country, can learn from India's general election is the way the defeated parties in India have accepted defeat without any demur. They have not lodged any complaints or allegations about the conduct of the polls. As the BJP's General Secretary, Arun Jaitley said “The BJP believes that the UPA has the best mandate to rule.” He further said that their defeat was the “collective” responsibility of the party. Similarly, the CPI(M) also gracefully accepted defeat. However, after our Dec 29 parliamentary elections, we saw the BNP finding it hard to accept defeat and rather claiming that the election had been “rigged” though according to both local and international observers, this election was the most fairly conducted poll in our country's history.
So, it is this culture of gracefully accepting defeat and congratulating the winning party, which our parties need to learn from our neighbour.
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