Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad. (File photo/Twitter)
Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad took a jibe at the opposition parties over who would be their leadership face against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP on Monday termed the meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru as a “meeting of opportunists and power-hungry leaders” and said such an alliance will do no good to the country, either in the present or in the future.
Addressing a press conference, senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad took a jibe at the opposition parties over who would be their leadership face against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, saying they would like a ‘baraat’. Are taking out. (Wedding procession) without the groom.
Prasad also mocked AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and said he was going to attend a meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru instead of staying in the national capital to provide relief to the flood-affected people.
He also hit out at the Congress, alleging that it did not say a word on the Kejriwal government’s mismanagement during the flood situation in Delhi or the violence during the panchayat elections in West Bengal, where the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC is in power.
Top leaders of 26 opposition parties, including Congress, AAP and TMC, are expected to attend a two-day brainstorming session in Bengaluru from Monday evening and may begin work on a common minimum program and announce a joint agitation plan. Can Take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Prasad said, “It is very sad that Arvind Kejriwal has gone to attend the opposition meeting in Bengaluru at a time when people in Delhi are affected by the floods and are facing many problems.” “Arvind Kejriwal ji, It was your job to stay here in the field and wipe the tears of flood affected people in Delhi. You should have been here to ensure that the system is in place, people are getting relief. But you went to Bengaluru,” he said.
The BJP leader also questioned the silence of the Left parties on the recent panchayat election violence in West Bengal.
Along with BJP workers, workers of Congress and Left parties were also killed in the violence. Why does the Congress party not speak anything on Bengal violence. Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M leader) keeps demanding an account from Prime Minister Modi on democracy. Why doesn’t he say anything on the panchayat election violence in Bengal?” Prasad alleged
He said the “so-called” coalition of opposition parties has “completely” sidelined the issues of good governance and probity in public life.
“The meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru is a meeting of opportunists and power-hungry leaders,” Prasad told reporters.
“Such an alliance is neither good for India’s present nor future,” he alleged.
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