Santa Clara (USA). Underlining the importance of opposition unity in the upcoming general elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, while addressing a gathering of NRIs here, said that if the opposition is “properly united”, then the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Center will be defeated. can be defeated.
Referring to the Congress’s victory in the Karnataka assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi said his party is working in this regard and is “moving in the right direction on this”. Silicon Valley Campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz on Tuesday. Gandhi said the BJP’s “weaknesses” are clearly visible to him, while answering questions from the moderator and audience at an event in New Delhi. “As a political entrepreneur, I clearly see the BJP’s weaknesses,” he said. Can see… If the opposition forms a proper alliance, the BJP can be defeated.
Gandhi said, “If you look at the Karnataka elections, the general understanding is that the Congress party took on the BJP and defeated it. But what is not well understood is the method we used. In the elections held on 10 May for Karnataka’s 224-member assembly, the Congress won 135 seats, while the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular) won 66 and 19 seats, respectively.
Rahul Gandhi said the BJP spent 10 times more money than the Congress in the Karnataka election. He said the country needs an alternative approach to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 general election, apart from a united opposition. “As far as opposition unity is concerned, we are working in this direction and it is moving in the right direction, but I think the opposition unity is needed to defeat the BJP,” the former Congress president said. More than unity is needed. In my opinion, the unity of the opposition alone will not be enough to make things work. I think you need an alternative approach to the BJP.” He said, “‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was the first step towards creating such an approach. This is the approach to which all opposition parties are aligned. No opposition party will disagree with the idea of ​​’Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was a mass movement led by Gandhi with the aim of uniting India. The yatra will start from Kanyakumari on September 7, 2022, pass through 12 states and end in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31, 2023. He said, “I think it is important to bring the opposition together, but bringing the opposition together and India’s It is also necessary to explain to the people that this is not just a group of opposition parties, but a proposed way to take the country forward and we are working on those things. The MP said that the decision on the candidate for the Prime Minister’s post will be taken by the President of the Congress party.
In his address, Gandhi also accused India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “intimidating” the people and “misusing” the country’s agencies. Gandhi said, “The BJP is threatening the people And misusing government agencies. The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was started because all the means we needed to connect with the people are controlled by the BJP-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It has become very difficult to work politically. So we decided to march from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar.” Gandhi said the journey was carried out in a spirit of affection, respect and humility.
He said, “If one reads history, all spiritual leaders including Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Guru Basavanna Ji, Narayan Guru Ji united the country in a similar way.” Gandhi said India was not what it was being shown in the media, which likes to promote a political discourse that is far from reality. He said things are being “twisted a lot”. So it became very clear that it is in the interest of the media to show these things, it helps the BJP. So don’t think that whatever you see in the media is true.
He said, “India is not what the media shows. Media likes to show a particular story. He likes to promote a political narrative that has nothing to do with the reality of India. The Congress leader arrived here on Tuesday for a three-city visit to the US. During this, he will interact with the Indian diaspora and meet US lawmakers. Sam Pitroda, president of the Indian Overseas Congress, said last week that Gandhi’s visit was aimed at promoting shared values ​​and vision of “real democracy”. have to give.
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