New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) There is no one reason or one person responsible for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) defeat in the Haryana assembly elections, its general secretary Vijay Goel said Thursday contradicting a senior party colleague.
“There is no one reason or one person responsible. We are looking at the reasons,” Goel told CNN-IBN news channel.

He also refused to blame Electronic Voting Machines for the defeat and said: “The party has never said the party is losing because of EVMs.”

Earlier in the day, the BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi had struck a discordant note, blaming EVMs for its defeat and saying these had become “electronic victory machines” for the Congress. “It is a sponsored victory for the Congress.”

Goel said: “Definitely, the Congress will form the government.”

He stated that in Haryana the BJP contested 90 seats and their seats and vote percentage would increase, but that was no cause for satisfaction.

Asked whether he feels there should be a leadership change at the national level, Goel said: “We have a leadership change after every three years… At present our organisational elections are going on and within a few months we will have a new leadership.”

The Congress is headed towards a simple majority and is expected to win 46 seats in the 90-member assembly.