Mizoram will be first state to bring Congress back to power in north east India: Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor said that with the win in Mizoram Congress, which once ruled Northeast India, will make a re-entry in region. Congress was voted out of power in 2018 in Mizoram and with this exit from Mizoram, Congress was out of the northeastern states once identified as the bastion of the grand old party.
The Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala launched a tirade against regional party Zoram Peoples Movement (ZPM). He said that it is not the time to experiment, BJP is trying to enter the government through the local party ZPM.
“No one knows who they are. Who is behind them? It is BJP’s entry through the backdoor. Who is financing them? ZPM took our votes.
They are looking to dent us,” he said.
“A vote for ZPM would be a vote for BJP through the backdoor. In these times it is better to vote for a tested party which knows you and understands your needs.
A party which has unknown shadows is lurking in the back,” the Congress leader added.
He added that Congress celebrates India's diversity and strengths, not its weaknesses. “The Congress will oppose one nation, one language, one code and one culture.
We are against uniformity. We believe that we can be united while maintaining our diversity," he said.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was a message of unifying India and a challenge to the BJP, which he said is pushing for the idea of one nation, one culture in India which has always celebrated difference, while Congress has always believed in the diversity of India, he told the media at in Aizawl.
“The BJP pushes an illusory idea of unity based on the notion of one religion and culture. We need to remember that uniformity is not unity.”
Criticising the Mizo National Front (MNF) government,
