BJP is a 'parasite', 'ate up' regional parties: Jairam Ramesh
Narendra Modi, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said the PM called for consensus outside Parliament but opted for confrontation within it, and if anybody was a "parasite", it was the BJP as its track record shows how it had «eaten up» the regional parties. In an interview with PTI a day after the Parliament session ended, the Congress general secretary, in-charge communications, said the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha had shown that a «new, aggressive, revived, rejuvenated» Opposition had emerged in the form of INDIA bloc.
«The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha and the simultaneous session of Rajya Sabha has certainly seen two things — a new, aggressive, revived, rejuvenated Opposition in the INDIA group which is the way it should be in a democracy, but at the same time we have also seen no change in the attitude, approach, behaviour of the non-biological PM,» Ramesh said in a swipe at Modi.
The Congress leader claimed that the 2024 election result was a decisive, personal, political and moral defeat for Modi but that was not reflected in the way he allowed Parliament to be conducted.
«He (Modi) called for consensus outside Parliament but opted for confrontation within Parliament. There is no evidence that it is going to change, but there is evidence that the Opposition is going to be aggressive, active, pro-active,» Ramesh said.
«We hope the government realises that this is a mandate for a coalition government, it is a mandate for taking people along and it is also a mandate for listening
