Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 'BJP's 400 paar seat target is complete fantasy,' Shashi Tharoor explains why

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Shashi Tharoor predicted that his party's confidence has increased in the run-up to the last two phases of elections. Tharoor said the Congress and INDIA bloc candidates will do better than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “I would say with some confidence that I am looking at the overall picture in the country with a great deal of self-belief.

The reason for this is both common sense and the trends we have seen in the country in the course of the first few phases," Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram, said speaking with the media in New Delhi on May 22. All seven seats of Delhi will vote in the sixth phase of polling on May 25. Also Read: '310 paar already': Amit Shah urges people to help PM Modi win over 400 Lok Sabha seats “When I say common sense, it was already very clear when BJP started talking about 'Abki Baar 400 Paar' that this was a complete fantasy.

Last time in 2019 (Lok Sabha Elections), thanks to the tragedy in Pulwama and the response in Balakot and the conversion of the election from what should have been a referendum on the economic failures of the first term of Mr Modi, it became, instead, a national security election in 2019 and as a result, they (BJP) maxed out in several states," Tharoor said analysing the BJP's win in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party won 303 seats, while the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which the BJP leads, bagged 353 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections. The Congress won just 52 seats.