New Delhi: Kerala Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has predicted that the Narendra Modi-powered BJP will face a tricky time in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls if the Opposition by and enormous coalesces round one candidate in each constituency to tackle the ruling celebration. The Congress chief additionally exuded confidence that the upcoming normal elections will probably be very thrilling. “I think it is going to be an exciting election. I do not agree with those who have written off the Opposition prospects in 2024,” he asserted.
Speaking to the information company PTI, Tharoor stated it might not be straightforward for the BJP to duplicate the sample of 2019 when it swept or nearly swept a number of states. Asked if the Congress needs to be the fulcrum of any Opposition alliance, the previous Union minister stated, “De facto it (Congress) is the only party other than the BJP with a national presence and arguably we have a stronger national presence in some parts of India than the BJP has, (examples being) my own state (Kerala), Tamil Nadu.”
There is not any query that the Congress is a celebration with a nationwide footprint, a historic legacy, presence just about in every single place and, due to this fact, inevitably it has to determine in any calculations of an Opposition entrance or an Opposition authorities in due course, Tharoor stated.
“I think that the main lesson here of course, and we have seen from the last two elections which the BJP won with 31 and 37 per cent votes respectively, is that the divided Opposition plays into the BJP’s hand,” he stated.
Opposition Unity To Oust BJP
Stressing on Opposition unity, Tharoor stated it may very well be in numerous kinds akin to a pre-poll alliance or selecting seats correctly in order that so far as attainable, the strongest Opposition candidate will get a transparent run towards the BJP rival, and the ultimate settlement left to after an election end result.
“All of that is not within the realm of my responsibility but all I can say is that if the Opposition by and large coalesces around one candidate in every constituency, I think the BJP is going to face a very tough time in 2024,” Tharoor asserted.
He argued that there have been very important materials adjustments in the nation since 2019 and cited the instance of Bihar the place the BJP’s former ally JD(U) has joined arms with the Opposition.
Anti-Incumbency Factor
“Much has changed since the BJP won a record number of seats with its ally in 2019 which is no longer its ally (in Bihar). Similarly, there are other states in which the BJP either had a clean sweep or won all but one seat in the state. I don’t think that pattern will replicate itself so easily in 2024,” Tharoor stated.
There is inevitably some anti-incumbency in the nation and the BJP might be ruing in 2024 that it succeeded a lot in 2019 that there have been virtually no positive aspects left for it to make in the nation, he argued.
Bharat Jodo Yatra
Asked if the AICC presidential elections and the Bharat Jodo Yatra has revitalized the celebration and introduced it into the intense reckoning for 2024, Tharoor stated he believes so and recalled that the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi had advised him after the AICC presidential polls that she felt that elections had strengthened the celebration. “We have seen that the public reaction to the Bharat Jodo Yatra, especially the culmination in Kashmir, was far greater than anybody, whether our critics or our admirers, had anticipated,” he stated.
“The sense is that not solely has it utterly remodeled Rahul Gandhi’s picture thereby the Congress celebration’s, however it has additionally given a brand new self-belief to the Congress employees and that definitely will contribute in a big method to revitalizing the celebration to the challenges that lie forward, Tharoor stated.
Not Interested in Any Party Position
Tharoor additionally dominated out contesting for the submit of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) chief, ought to one be held, saying that he had contested for the submit of the celebration`s nationwide president as he stood up for sure ideas and now it was time for others to `step ahead`.
“I`m not interested in any position for myself. It was to make a certain point and stand up for certain principles that I contested for the (Congress) president`s post. I feel I made my point, now it is for others to step forward,” Tharoor stated.
Congress constituted the Organising Committee and Reception Committee for the eighty fifth Plenary Session of the celebration to be held between February 24-26 in Raipur. The Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram stated he does intend to go to the Plenary assembly though he isn’t in any place for himself.
