Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday (February 2) humorously referred to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election slogan “abki baar 400 par”, and stated that the BJP is posed to surpass the 400 seats mark in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the second which left Prime Minister Narendra Modi in splits.
“With a present majority of 330-334 seats, this time it is going to be above 400,” Kharge stated in Rajya Sabha.
“Let them secure the first position. Those present here clapping have come with the ‘kripa’ (blessing) of PM Modi,” the Congress chief added.
Taking half in the amusing flip of occasions in the Upper House, Leader of the House Piyush Goyal applauded the Congress chief’s remarks, “Kharge ji spoke the truth”.
Kharge takes U-turn
Later, Kharge contradicted his earlier assertion taking a U-turn, and asserted that the BJP wouldn’t even cross 100 seats mark in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. “INDIA (bloc) is strong,” he stated.
Goyal responded to the comment and stated, “daily one of the I.N.D.I.A bloc member is leaving the alliance. We don’t know whether the INDI alliance exists or not”.
The video of the banter was shared by the BJP’s X deal with, captioning it as, “PM Modi be like, “I need new haters, the old ones have become my fans…”
The whole sequence caused a lightweight second among the many Parliamentarians as these on the Treasury bench, together with PM Modi, broke into laughter.
Union Minister Smriti Irani shared the video on her Twitter account and tweeted, “Opposition also accepted, BJP will cross 400-mark in the third time!”
Congress phrases Kharge’s remarks as “sarcasm”
Defending Kharge’s ‘400 paar ho raha hai’ comment, Congress MP Shaktisinh Gohil asserted that the celebration chief stated in a sarcastic method.
“Kharge ji said that in a sarcastic manner. He said that you keep saying ‘400 ke paar’ but people will decide this and you will not even cross 100 (seats) but BJP fails to understand the sarcasm,” Congress MP stated.
Lok Sabha elections
As the Lok Sabha elections draw close to, India’s political panorama is present process a major reshuffling. The rising INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) consortium is gearing as much as problem the established National Democratic Alliance, setting the stage for an electoral showdown.
Earlier in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA received 353 seats, the UPA stood at 91, and Others received 98. The voting was staggered in seven phases between April 11 and May 19, in which round 67 per cent of the almost 900 million eligible folks exercised their franchise to elect 542 members of the Lok Sabha.
The Lok Sabha elections more likely to be held this 12 months in April.
(With ANI inputs)
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