Lok Sabha election 2024: Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has mentioned that if parties within the I.N.D.I.A bloc want to contest election individually then they should formally announce it. With simply a few months left for the Lok Sabha elections, seat-sharing has not been finalised amongst members of the Opposition’s alliance.
Jairam Ramesh, who’s accompanying Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra which entered Bihar, made a press release saying, “Till now things have not been finalised on our end. In an alliance, all members should speak in one voice. One-sided decisions cannot be taken… There are three parties in the I.N.D.I.A alliance. If all these three want to fight separately, they should officially announce this. Till now we are considering that the alliance will fight together in West Bengal as well…”
Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister has already made it clear that her celebration would contest independently from all of the 42 constituencies in West Bengal within the Lok Sabha elections scheduled this 12 months, a put up mortem has began on the elements that prompted the TMC-Congress bonhomie to flip murky.
Now, whereas quoting the time period “TMC-Congress bonhomie,” political observers have additionally defined that this idea of sociability was not an total issue between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress.
Rather, this sociability was extra a private bond between Mamata Banerjee and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in addition to another nationwide leaders of the nation’s oldest nationwide celebration like Abhishek Manu Singhvi, P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh.
Where the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) is anxious, political observers say, the equation of the Chief Minister with virtually all state Congress leaders, particularly the celebration’s state President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, was all the time acrimonious.
Meanwhile in Bihar, in a sudden flip of occasions, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar determined to half methods with the I.N.D.I.A bloc as he dumped the alliance with RJD, and fashioned the federal government with BJP as soon as once more.
A day after Nitish Kumar ditched the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ to return to the BJP-led NDA, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh claimed that the JD(U) supremo’s exit could have “absolutely no impact” on the opposition bloc I.N.D.I.A.
Interacting with reporters in Kishanganj throughout the Congress’ ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, Ramesh mocked Kumar, saying ‘Aaya Kumar, Gaya Kumar’.
Speaking on Kumar allying with the BJP-led NDA, he mentioned, “It will not have any impact on the I.N.D.I.A bloc… absolutely no impact. This is typical of Nitish Kumar. It is not ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’, it is ‘Aaya Kumar, Gaya Kumar’.”
The Congress chief additionally alleged that “Kumar’s betrayal” was “masterminded by the prime minister”.
“When ‘Bharat Jodo Nayay Yatra’ started on January 14 from Manipur’s Thoubal, PM Modi found the ‘muhurat’ to sway Milind Deora from the Congress so that the headlines become ‘Milind Deora’ instead of ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’,” he alleged.
“They (BJP) were stressed with Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’s entry to Bihar. So, they asked the ‘flipping master’ (referring to Nitish Kumar) to do a flip… and he did that,” he mentioned.
Ramesh claimed that the Congress obtained an amazing response from the individuals of Kishanganj after the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ reached the district this morning.
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