Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has proved his management skills by means of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha mentioned.
In an interview to PTI, Sinha mentioned Gandhi’s 3,570-km-long march that started in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu will assist the Congress double its tally within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress gained 52 seats in 2019 elections.
“Bharat Jodo Yatra is getting an excellent response. Rahul Gandhi’s charisma has began working, and he’s getting a superb response from the individuals. I really feel that Gandhi’s yatra will assist double the tally of the Congress in Parliament within the subsequent Lok Sabha polls,” he mentioned.
“It is a ‘yatra’ in a real sense as Gandhi is strolling not like ‘Rath yatras’ by BJP leaders. Lakhs of persons are popping out in his help. He has proved his management qualities. Individuals have accepted him as a pacesetter. And, those that made enjoyable of him as ‘Pappu’ and didn’t take him significantly have been proved mistaken,” he added.
Sinha, a former BJP MP, briefly joined the Congress in 2019 after variations along with his former social gathering. The favored actor of the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties joined the TMC earlier this yr and efficiently fought the by-election from Asansol, an industrial city in West Bengal with a considerable Bihari inhabitants.
“BJP leaders are making enjoyable of Gandhi, however allow them to additionally conduct an analogous yatra on foot if they’ve the fireplace of their stomach. The magic spell of Rahul Gandhi will work within the subsequent elections, I really feel and I would like it to occur,” Sinha mentioned.
Talking on the Gujarat elections, the TMC chief mentioned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would both emerge because the “kingmaker or the king” himself.
“In Gujarat, Kejriwal will both emerge because the king or the kingmaker. There’s a churning within the saffron camp in Gujarat. The BJP can’t milk Hindutva or the Ram Mandir concern each time. Kejriwal has performed a masterstroke by means of his demand of images of Goddess Laxmi and Lord Ganesh on foreign money notes,” he mentioned.
Final week, Kejriwal appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to print photos of Lord Ganesh and Goddess Lakshmi on foreign money notes for the progress of the nation.
“Kejriwal has paid the BJP again with the identical coin. The BJP used to behave as in the event that they had been the grasp of the ‘Hindutva faculty of politics’ however Kejriwal is now the headmaster of that faculty. The BJP can neither swallow it nor discard it,” Sinha mentioned.
Claiming that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will likely be a “game-changer” within the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Sinha hoped that the relation between the TMC and the Congress would enhance.
“There is no such thing as a final phrase in politics. Immediately, the relations are usually not good doesn’t imply it gained’t enhance tomorrow. I personally really feel that if main opposition events come collectively, the political state of affairs of the nation will likely be utterly completely different,” he mentioned.
On the face of the opposition for the 2024 elections, Sinha mentioned that the individuals of the nation will select the precise chief.
“This query that who will likely be subsequent (prime minister) comes up in each election. When you attain the highest politically, it is going to be determined primarily based on numbers and the mandate. The nation by no means stops, governments maintain altering, and new management comes up,” he mentioned.
Sinha, a minister within the Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s NDA authorities, asserted that the anti-BJP events are gaining momentum within the states — whether or not it’s Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu or Karnataka.
Sinha additionally targetted the BJP for the “lacking” posters that surfaced in Asansol, his constituency, final week.
“Those that are but to digest the defeat within the bypoll are behind this. I used to be in my constituency throughout Durga Puja, and was right here until final week. I’m spending Chhaath right here in Asansol. I’ve been frequently visiting Asansol and the individuals of my constituency will vouch for it,” he mentioned.