Cong's fine performance a forerunner to LS polls: Pondy CM

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy Tuesday said the Congress' fine showing in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh assembly elections was a forerunner to next year's Lok Sabha polls.

Narayanasamy and PWD Minister A Namassivayam, who is also the Congress Puducherry chief, and other legislators distributed sweets to people as news of the election results in the three Hindi heartland states, trickled in.

The Congress appeared set to wrest Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the BJP, which was trailing marginally in Madhya Pradesh in a cliffhanger.

The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the three states was a blow to the 'vanity and reckless' administration of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, he told reporters.

The chief minister alleged that the NDA government at the Centre had failed the people as it had not implemented any of the promises it had made during the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

He alleged farmers were committing suicide because the Centre had not waived loans taken by the ryots.

He said secular parties would form the government under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi at the Centre in 2019 after the parliamentary polls.