Congress spokesman Surendra Agarwal made no bones about conceding defeatbut blamed the division of secular votes as responsible for the party's debacle.But BJP state president Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, who won from Kapkot Assembly seat, said the people rejected Congress because of its"anti-Uttarakhand policies". "All the 300 lal battis have been fused inUttarakhand," he claimed triumphantly, referring to the over 300 ministerial-level postsdistributed by Chief Minister N D Tiwari to Congress leaders in the state, whichincidentally was also opposed by the state Congress president Rawat and was madeinto a big election issue by the BJP. "We only saw lal battis [red lights atopofficial cars] during the five-year tenure of the Congress," Koshiyari said, addingthat the BJP would not be in the business of distributing these "lal battis".