"People have rejected the attempts of BJP to polarise the people on communal lines and the (bypoll) results are a clear blow to rabid communal politics," CPI National Secretary D Raja said here.
Responding to the poll results, he said the trend shown in the earlier Uttarakhand Assembly elections just after the Lok Sabha polls, where too BJP was defeated, "appears to be continuing".
He said BJP "tried hard to polarise the people in Uttar Pradesh but they gave a poor show despite such efforts".
In West Bengal where BJP made a debut on its own winning a lone seat, the CPI leader said the development was "worrisome for the Left parties which should do some introspection".
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