Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the most important political analysis emerging from the results of the five State Assembly polls is a significant setback to the Congress. In his latest blog post, Mr Jaitley said, post 2014 General Elections, the Congress has increasingly adopted fringe positions. According to the Finance Minister, Congress is threatened with being pushed increasingly to the margins. He questioned whether Congress will be the main challenger to the BJP led NDA in 2019. It will stand behind a combination of ideologically disparate regional groups. <br/><br/>What is on the nature of surgery the Congress leaders are now talking about? He asked whether it will evolve into a structured party with a galaxy of leaders remaining a dynastic party?<br/><br/>Mr. Jaitley said, for the BJP, this election marks a significant geographical expansion. He said there were not many takers in 2008 for the idea that BJP can form its own government in Karnataka. He said, the party is already a part of two coalition governments in the North East and have made a sizeable seat and vote presence in West Bengal. Mr. Jaitley said we seek to work in cooperation with the Governments of the regional parties.<br/><br/>Targeting the Left, Finance Minister said the Left has ideologically become irrelevant globally and the political and economic models that they espoused have been widely rejected. Mr. Jaitley said In India, it is their battle for an ideological survival. He siad extreme positions espoused by a few in the Universities of Jadhavpur and JNU cannot be a mainstream agenda of India.<br/><br/>Finance Minister said it will be an opportunity for Central Government to work closely with all the five elected State Governments for the larger welfare of the people.