Pranab Mukherjee said if any party, after its defeat in general elections, tries to destabilise the government, it destabilises the system in that process and brings instability as was witnessed from 1996 to 2004.
Expressing happiness over the Assembly election results for five states, Congress today chose the occasion to taunt BJP and Left parties asking them to learn the "right lessons" and stop attempts to destabilise the UPA government.
"In this election more than 828 assembly seats went to polls. A national party (BJP), which claims to form government there could not win seats even in double digit. The other party (CPI-M), which aided, abetted and supported BJP inside and outside Parliament also could do no better," senior party leader Pranab Mukherjee said adding it was reduced to double digit figure in West Bengal.
Noting that the verdict of these elections was for both "stability and change", Mukherjee said there were certain political parties, which wanted to destabilise the UPA government and they could not reconcile to the fact that after their efforts to destabilise the government in 2008, people gave increased mandate to the UPA bringing it back to power.
"For last one year, efforts were made to destabilise not only the government but through it destabilise the system and bring in instability. I hope political parties would draw right lessons from the results and behave. In Parliamentary democracy election comes after every five years. Responsible parties are expected to wait for that period," he said.
Mukherjee said if any party, after its defeat in general elections, tries to destabilise the government, it destabilises the system in that process and brings instability as was witnessed from 1996 to 2004.
He recalled that during the NDA rule, when Congress was in the Opposition, it did not bring any no-confidence motion.
"Therefore opposition parties should wait for three years till election comes. In the process to fulfil their individual ambitions, they should not do anything that brings instability and that is the lesson from this verdict," Mukherjee said.
The finance minister admitted that the results of this assembly election giving a sweeping victory to Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance is "mandate for Mamata Banerjee".
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