Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today blamed the state leadership for the drubbing received by Congress in the Assembly polls and dismissed the notion of any 'Modi wave'."BJP has not won because there was some Modi wave here.

It all boils down to the anti-incumbency factor. Had the state leadership handled issues more responsibly, we would have been much better off than what we are today," he told PTI. The Congress-NCP break up at the eleventh hour dented the image of both the parties in the mind of the electorate, he said.Ashok Chavan