The INDIA bloc will meet and decide on Wednesday whether to approach former partners such as the JD(U) and the TDP to attempt government formation at the Centre following the Lok Sabha Election Results 2024, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said, reported the PTI.
“We are going to have a meeting with our partners tomorrow. These questions will be raised and answered there,” Rahul Gandhi told a press conference here when asked if the Congress and its allies will approach parties that are part of the NDA to try and form a government, according to the PTI.
Rahul Gandhi was addressing the press conference with senior Congress leaders as the Lok Sabha poll results and trends showed the BJP was set to become the single-largest party but would fall short of the magic figure of 272.
“We won`t say anything without asking the opinion of our allies. Our alliance will decide tomorrow and whatever they decide we will act on that,” he said, as per the PTI.
He also said the India General Elections 2024 were a fight to save the Constitution and “India`s poorest and backward stood up to save the Constitution.”
Poll results mandate against PM Modi: Congress chief Kharge
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday termed the Lok Sabha elections outcome a mandate against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a political and moral defeat of the BJP, the PTI reported on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference here, he said the results are a victory of the people and of democracy.
The BJP-led NDA was ahead in over 290 seats, while the opposition INDIA bloc was leading in 232 parliamentary seats.
“This is public`s result and public`s and democracy`s victory. We had been saying that this battle is between public and Modi. We humbly accept the people`s mandate,” Kharge told reporters at the AICC headquarters flanked by Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
Kharge said the voters did not give a complete majority to any single party, particularly the BJP that sought votes on the basis of `one person, one face`.
“This is their (BJP`s) political and moral defeat,” he said.
He said the government machinery created obstacles in the path of the opposition alliance.
Mallikarjun Kharge said people saw through `lies` spread by Prime Minister Modi on Congress`s manifesto.
(with PTI inputs)
