Mallikarjun Kharge's ‘Kaun Banega crorepati’ retort over question of INDIA Bloc's PM candidate
Opposition INDIA bloc over not announcing the prime ministerial candidate and even said that all leaders in the Opposition alliance are candidates to become the prime minister. "If we form the government, all the leaders will decide who will be their PM," Mallikarjun Kharge was quoted by NDTV as saying during a press conference in Himachal Pradesh's capital, Shimla. He mentioned the ten years of the UPA regime and said that no prime ministerial candidate was announced before the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
"In 2004, Congress leaders wanted Sonia Gandhi to be the Prime Minister, but she refused. We didn't have the majority, we had 140 seats. We returned to power in 2009 with 209 seats.
We formed the UPA alliance and ran the government for ten years," he said.Mallikarjun Kharge also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said he made big promises in 2014 and 2019 but never fulfilled them. "The Prime Minister made big promises in 2014 and 2019 but did not look back after that. He did not help Himachal Pradesh when a natural disaster struck it.
The BJP is working to topple governments in the country and has tried to destabilise the Congress government of Himachal," the Congress President said. The elections for the 4 Parliamentary Constituency of Himachal Pradesh will be conducted on June 1, the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections, and this time, many high-profile leaders are competing against each other in the hill state. The contest for the Mandi Lok Sabha seat is expected to make headlines.
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