Prime Minister Narendra Modi posts on X challenging Congress’s performance in Legislative Council (MLC) elections held across four states. He highlights that the elections for 28 seats in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka were conducted using ballot papers, and asks how many seats Congress won.
Multiple outlets frame the story around Modi’s “ballot” taunt and the claim that Congress drew a blank in the results being reported at the time. They also note broader political context, including allegations in the wider debate over electronic voting machines (EVMs) raised by Congress and a rejection of those allegations by the BJP.
While coverage broadly agrees on the states, the number of seats, and the ballot-paper emphasis in Modi’s post, the details vary in what they foreground. Some outlets focus tightly on the headline exchange, while others include extra context about rivals contesting seats and how the outcome is being interpreted in the EVM debate.
