Congress says the mandate for the India bloc will be crucial
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) will get a clear and unambiguous mandate to form the next government, the Congress said on Friday.
Twenty years later, Congress national secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, told the media in Chandigarh that history was repeating itself. According to Ramesh, “2024 will be a replay of 2004, when the Congress-led alliance stormed to power.”
Retaliating to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s taunt of “five PMs in five years” for the INDIA bloc, Ramesh said that the INDIA bloc would reveal the prime minister’s name three days after the announcement of the election results on June 4. He suggested that the group will have a single prime minister for five years.
He remarked, “I want to remind those who keep asking who will lead India if the INDIA bloc wins the mandate that Dr. Manmohan Singh’s name was announced for the PM position within three days in 2004 after the Congress and its allies got the mandate.”
Ramesh said, “This time, it won’t even take three days,” adding that “one person will be prime minister to run the government for five years.”
He said that members of the INDIA bloc would choose the prime ministerial nominee via a democratic process.
“In our nation, elections are not beauty pageants. Elections in our nation are between parties since our democracy is centered on parties rather than individuals, according to Ramesh.
“The responses from several states, where Congress had not done well in 2019, were quite positive. It performed well this time. Since April 19, Modi has begun to communalize his electoral approach and has shifted the focus of his speech to issues pertaining to Muslims and Hindus. After April 19, Modi’s speaking language changed, according to Ramesh. “No talk of Viksit Bharat, Modi ki guarantee, or farmers’ issues,” he said.
Congress’s influence
According to Jairam Ramesh, the response from the several states where Congress did not do well in 2019 was fairly positive. “It performed well this time. Since April 19, Modi has begun to communalize his electioneering approach and has shifted his rhetoric, making everything into a Hindu-Muslim dispute, the speaker claimed.
