Cong sees big sweep in LS polls

In a electoral battle where the BJP had pitched in their personalities, the Congress she said it had fought on the basis of its policies.

Denouncing the BJP's campaign centering around the 'feel good' factor and the India Shining slogan, she said that the common man in Andhra Pradesh had not fallen for the party's claims.

"The common man of the state was a conscious self-confident voter," she said.

She said that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu was the poster boy of the NDA, who was being projected as a future prime ministerial candidate. The people of his state clearly do not acknowledge this, she added.

Though Naidu had become a brand name, this decisive mandate in Andhra Pradesh clearly did not reflect even through the exit polls, she commented.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi and other state party leaders had campaigned extensively in the run-up to the elections in the state.

Therefore, voters of Andhra Pradesh had recognised Sonia as a leader, she said.