No more elections will be held in India, if Modi wins 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Mallikarjun Kharge
The Hindu
Bhubaneswar Congress president warns that the 2024 elections may be the last chance to save democracy in India.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on January 29 expressed apprehension that the 2024 Lok Sabha elections would be the last opportunity for the people to save democracy, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi might prefer dictatorship in case his party wins the upcoming polls.
He urged people to keep away from the BJP and its ideologue Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), alleging that they are "like poison".
"This will be the last opportunity for the people to save democracy in India. If Narendra Modi wins another election, there will be dictatorship in the country," Mr. Kharge said while addressing a party rally.
On the JD(U) of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar returning to the NDA leaving the Congress on January 28, Mr. Kharge claimed it will not have any impact on the polls.
"One person quitting Mahagathbandhan will not weaken us. We will defeat BJP," he said.
Mr. Kharge added that Mr. Kumar’s move to split from Mahagathbandhan and to join the NDA was ‘pre-planned’ and accused the JD(U) chief of keeping the INDIA bloc in dark.
He alleged that the JD(U) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ‘planned’ to break the INDIA bloc as such decisions can not be taken in a hurry. “Such decisions can not be taken in a hurry...This shows that it was all pre-planned. To break the INDIA alliance they (BJP-JD(U)) planned all this... He [Nitish Kumar] kept us in the dark, he kept Lalu Yadav in the dark,” Mr. Kharge said.
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