Rahul should be made accountable for Karnataka polls: Ravi Shankar Prasad

 Bengaluru, May 15 :  BJP leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said
Congress president Rahul Gandhi should be held accountable for the saffron party's resounding
victory and grand old party's defeat in Karnataka polls and maintained an effort is on to save
Mr Gandhi from accountability.
"Rahul Gandhi should be held accountable today.....But accountability is the last thing in the Congress
narrative," Mr Prasad told a television channel.
He said there is a "conscious design" to change the narrative of the poll results in keenly contested
elections in Karnataka.
"There is also an attempt to deny BJP its moments of glory....So they are saying, we will not accept defeat,"
he said.
The Union Minister claimed Congress refusal to accept 'defeat' in high decibel Karnataka polls was -
"surprising and bizarre".
Earlier in the day, Mr Prasad and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman have attributed party's stunning performance
in the polls to the intense campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also that the mandate was an endorsement
of Mr Modi's developmental agenda.
He said people's mandate came across the board irrespective of caste and religion affiliation and also
cutting across urban-rural divide.
Making a veiled attack on the Leftists, he said some political elements are in "subdued" tone on BJP
our victory but wondered they were "conspicuously silent about political violence" in Mamata Banerjee-ruled
West Bengal - where the communists are also in the opposition. UNI