New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday reacted to the Karnataka Assembly election outcomes and mentioned that Congress has alone given an alternative choice to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Speaking to reporters after assembly Communist Party of India (CPI) chief D Raja, Pawar indicated that the Karnataka template must be applied in different states, and for that, like-minded events must work on a standard minimal programme (CMP).
“The Karnataka assembly elections have given a message. We need to work on creating a situation like Karnataka in other states. The Congress alone gave an alternative to the BJP in Karnataka, but in other states, like-minded parties will have to work on a common minimum programme (CMP),” Sharad Pawar mentioned.
We will work on each fronts (of making a technique like Karnataka and the CMP) and we’re beginning this course of, he added.
In the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the Congress received 135 seats and ousted the BJP, which secured 66 seats, from the one state it ruled in southern India. Congress’ emphatic victory in Karnataka got here amid Opposition events exploring a united entrance in opposition to the saffron celebration within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Karnataka election outcome ‘a lift’ for MVA: Maharashtra NCP chief
The BJP’s crushing defeat in Karnataka is a lift for Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra which is able to take small events alongside and put up a united problem to the ruling celebration within the 2024 elections, state NCP chief Jayant Patil mentioned on Sunday.
Speaking to reporters after attending the MVA assembly at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence in Mumbai, Patil mentioned the MVA — comprising Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP, and Congress — will work out a seat-sharing system forward of the Lok Sabha and the Maharashtra meeting elections. MVA leaders, together with Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena (UBT) and state Congress chief Nana Patole, attended the assembly.
“Like Karnataka, I am sure the MVA will win the people’s trust in Maharashtra and will work with more strength,” Patil mentioned.
He mentioned MVA leaders have determined to carry talks with different small events and are hopeful of presenting a united opposition to the present dispensation within the nation in 2024.
“The three constituents of MVA will meet and work out a seat-sharing system forward of the Lok Sabha and the Maharashtra meeting elections. We are beginning steadily and slowly,? Patil added.
