The Congress on Saturday described the Maharashtra poll outcome as "inexplicable" and claimed that the level-playing field was disturbed in a targeted manner as part of a conspiracy to defeat it.
The opposition party, however, hailed the result in Jharkhand, saying the people of the state had categorically rejected the "politics of polarisation" peddled by the BJP.
"The Maharashtra assembly poll result is surprising, inexplicable for us," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, stressing that it was not a victory of development, as projected by the BJP.
On Jharkhand, he said, "The people of Jharkhand have decisively rejected the politics of polarisation."
Congress leader Pawan Khera said, as the principal opposition party, "we find it our responsibility to keep raising issues of transparency in elections".
"The people of Jharkhand made victorious the government that worked for them," he said.
"The Maharashtra outcome has been brought out through a targeted conspiracy after the ...