PUNE, Dec 2: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde today said the BJP would introspect and analyse whether the cause of the party's debacle in the just concluded Assembly elections in four states, was the spiralling price of onions, or the inconsistent stand on the Hindutva as alleged by the Sena chief Bal Thackeray.Thackeray had said that the party had sufferred a defeat because it did not take a bold stand on the issue of Vande Mataram and the stand taken by the Central Government towards the proposed tour of the Pakistani cricket team to India.
Talking to newspersons here, Munde said that while Thackeray was alleging that BJP had lost due to its softened stand, the Akali Dal was alleging that the cause for defeat was due to its hardline stand on Hindutva. ``Anyway, the results of the Assembly elections were certainly unexpected,'' he said.
Munde attributed the defeat to the soaring price of onions for which, he said, nature was responsible and not his party.
To a query about thetwenty independent MLAs who were reportedly going to quit the Sena-BJP alliance Government, Munde said this talk was going on since the past three years and the Government still remained unscathed.
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