As meetings between the leaders of 26 Opposition parties were taking place in Bengaluru to develop a plan to compete with the BJP in the general election of 2024, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge declared that his party was not interested in power or the office of Prime Minister.
“Power or the position of prime minister are not of importance to Congress. We are not holding this gathering to gain power. According to Kharge, it is to defend our Constitution, democracy, secularism, and social justice.
At the joint Opposition meeting in Bengaluru, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said – Every institution is being turned into a weapon against the opposition. CBI, ED, and Income Tax are routinely used. False criminal cases are filed against our leaders so that they get…
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Taking aim at the BJP, Kharge said, “We are 26 parties, in government in 11 states. The BJP didn’t get 303 seats by itself, used the votes of allies, then discarded them.”
“We are aware that at the state level, there are differences between some of us. These differences are not ideological. These differences are not so big that we cannot put them behind us for the sake of the common man and middle class, for youth, for the poor, the Dalit, the adivasis and the minorities whose rights are being crushed silently behind the scenes,” Kharge added.
