Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday hailed the Congress victory in the assembly bypolls and termed the SAD defeat in Jalalabad as the rejection of their "negative agenda".
"The Akalis clearly failed to learn a lesson from their previous electoral defeats and continued to engage in negative campaigning, including the politicisation of religion," Amarinder Singh said, adding that their defeat in Sukhbir Badal's "self-proclaimed stronghold" of Jalalabad was a "total rejection of their negative agenda".
People had made it clear that there was no place for the parties who did not work for their welfare, he said in a statement here after the Congress emerged victorious in Phagwara, Mukerian and Jalalabad assembly segments.
The Shiromani Akali Dal bagged the Dakha seat.
Stressing that the results once again exposed the "hollowness" of the Akali claims, the CM said ,"The referendum, as the Akalis had been keen on dubbing these byelections, was clearly not in their favour, and the people of Punjab had once again denounced SAD's unconstructive policies."
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