Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal met Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai on Monday, in which they mentioned competition harmony in advance of the countrywide election in 2024 and alleged misuse of vital groups via way of means of the BJP authorities to goal competition leaders.
“I got here right here to satisfy Uddhav ji and to deliver the message of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The message may be very clear – withinside the modern-day political scenario in India and Maharashtra, Uddhav ji is combating towards anti-democratic forces. Democracy has been absolutely sabotaged via way of means of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, we’ve visible that. The ED and CBI are getting used to goal Uddhav ji`s and different events,” Mr Venugopal informed newshounds after the meeting.
Mr Venugopal known as for a “broader competition harmony”, that’s why Mr Kharge and Mr Gandhi met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Tejashwi Yadav and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar remaining week. The Bihar leaders had additionally met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who become wondered via way of means of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a witness withinside the Delhi liquor coverage case.
“The competition will collectively combat the dictatorship of Narendra Modi. There can be variations in opinion. The Congress, Sena and NCP have their personal ideology, however the united states is going through larger troubles which we in no way faced. That’s why we mentioned these types of troubles and we’re all in settlement that all of us must get collectively and combat those people,” Mr Venugopal stated.
Mr Gandhi will meet Mr Uddhav in Mumbai sometime, and the Sena leader may even go to Delhi soon, the Congress General Secretary stated.
Agreeing with the travelling Congress chief, Mr Thackeray stated all and sundry has their personal ideology; however, their warfare is to store democracy.
“Hum jab dosti nibhate hai, wo dosti nahi, rishta hota hai (for us, friendship is family),” Mr Thackeray informed newshounds. “We supported the BJP for 25 years, however they in no way surely understood who’s a chum and who’s an enemy,” he added.
The BJP has frequently taken swipes on the competition’s try to unite whilst there are disagreements or even outright hostility among a number of them. Yesterday, Congress chief Ajay Maken requested the celebration now no longer to “support” and “display any sympathy” to Mr Kejriwal as doing so would “confuse” the Congress cadre and “benefit” the BJP.
Mr Maken’s remark comes an afternoon after Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge dialled Mr Kejriwal and mentioned the want for competition harmony to stand the BJP withinside the countrywide election subsequent year.
A week earlier than that, Mr Pawar, whose NCP is an best friend of the Congress in Maharashtra, shredded a few competition events’ high-pitched marketing campaign for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani Group-Hindenburg Research row, which stalled all commercial enterprise withinside the united states’s maximum essential legislative body.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday remaining scoffed on the efforts of the competition events to defeat the BJP in 2024 and known as their strive at an alliance a “thugbandhan” (alliance of thugs).
“People are conscious that those events don’t have any not unusualplace rules or ideology and make fake guarantees to win elections. Such experiments had failed withinside the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls,” Mr Thakur stated.
