INDIA bloc underlines 'accommodative spirit', Rahul Gandhi says BJP will be defeated if they fight unitedly
INDIA bloc leaders on Friday vowed to finalise seat sharing in an accommodative spirit, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claiming the alliance represents 60 per cent of the country's population and will easily defeat the BJP if it fights the Lok Sabha polls unitedly. Amid speculation of early polls and the government setting up a panel to explore the possibility of 'one nation, one election', leaders from 28 Opposition parties took crucial decisions at their conclave here, including setting up a 14-member coordination committee which will be the top decision-making body of the alliance and start work on seat sharing.
Addressing a joint press conference after the two-day brainstorming here on crystallising the alliance's structure, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge alleged the BJP-led government was stealing from the poor to help big industrialists.
«INDIA grouping must win to stop this loot.»
«We all have a common goal to fight inflation and unemployment,» Kharge said at the presser.
In his remarks, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi slammed the government over fresh allegations against the Adani Group. He also claimed China has «taken India's land in Ladakh» and everyone there knows about it.
«The most important thing to understand is that this stage represents 60 per cent of the Indian population.
If the parties on this stage unite, it is impossible for the BJP to win an election,» he said. «I am confident the INDIA bloc will easily defeat BJP.»
«We will propose a clear development path which involves poor people in the progress of the country,» Gandhi said.
He acknowledged the differences within the alliance, but said what impressed him was how those differences have been minimised and ironed out.
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