Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress has responded to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s ‘Ek Thi Congress’ jibe saying ‘Ek Tha Joker’ including that goals of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and PM Modi are so comparable as they each desire a ‘Congress mukt bharat’ (Congress-free India).
Taking to X, previously Twitter, Congress chief Pawan Khera mentioned, “How similar are the views of ‘AAP’ and Modi ji!! Both of them dream of a Congress-free India… by the way, the name of a Bhojpuri picture is ‘Ek Tha Joker’. You must have seen it?”
Pawan Khera’s response has come after CM Bhawant Mann whereas chatting with reporters mentioned, “In Punjab and Delhi, mothers can tell the world’s shortest story to their children – Ek Thi Cong (there was once a Congress).”
When requested in regards to the problem of seat adjustment amongst I.N.D.I.A. bloc companions, Mann mentioned these issues can be mentioned within the alliance assembly and added, “Only after things are finalised we will be able to tell”.
“We are fighting for the country. If the Constitution is saved, then everything else will remain,” he mentioned.
When Mann was requested about Congress leaders reportedly telling their social gathering excessive command that the social gathering can be worn out in polls if it allied with AAP, the chief minister took a swipe at the opposition social gathering saying, “Te hun ki hoya hai unada (Is their state of affairs any different now)”.
He ended his press convention along with his “shortest story” jibe at the Congress.
Notably, many Punjab Congress leaders together with Partap Singh Bajwa had earlier mentioned the emotions of social gathering cadre within the state are towards any alliance with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
With inputs from PTI
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