Threats from Modi to force opposition leaders to join the NDA: Kharge
BIDAR: AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge voiced his worries on Tuesday about Congressmen and members of the INDIA bloc siding with the BJP and NDA despite having authority, such as that of chief minister and ministers.
Declaring that these politicians are joining the NDA either because of threats or because they want to hold onto power, Kharge began the Lok Sabha election campaign from his hometown of Bidar in the Kalyana Karnataka area. He questioned how someone who has supported secularism his whole life, such as 92-year-old senior leader HD Deve Gowda, could have joined the NDA.
Kharge claimed to be fully aware of the BJP’s and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to undermine opposition parties by using democratically established agencies like the Election Commission, Income Tax Department, and Enforcement Directorate. Kharge questioned Modi a few days ago at a meeting in New Delhi about the medication he is providing politicians to entice them to join the BJP. According to Kharge, Modi smiled and asked him what he could do if leaders of other parties joined the BJP and NDA willingly.
Actually, Modi, the BJP, and the RSS are threatening to conduct ED searches and levy income taxes. He said that this fear is pressuring well-known opposition party leaders to join the NDA. Despite calling Congress a “zero party,” Kharge said that the PM is pushing opposition party leaders to join the NDA because he is aware that a zero may at any moment turn into a hero.
“We must stand together, confront all challenges, and win the 2024 Lok Sabha elections if we are to safeguard democracy and the Constitution,” he said.
He assured the populace that choosing Congress to rule over them would not be in their best interests, but rather a way to defend democracy and the Constitution.
Kharge accused the BJP of combining religion and politics at a felicitation function honoring his 50 years in politics and the tenth anniversary of the amendment of Article 371 J for the Kalyana Karnataka area, which was hosted by 17 different organizations and a small number of public leaders. “They ought to promote religion in homes or temples if that is their desire. Politics and religion shouldn’t coexist. You can trick some individuals sometimes, but not everyone,” he said.
Kharge said that he only decided to run for the Lok Sabha in 2009 after receiving confirmation from Sonia Gandhi, the senior leader of the party, that Article 371 J would be changed if the Congress were to retake power. “It was quite the hassle to introduce the Amendment. He remembered that Sonia Gandhi personally spoke with several party leaders in order to secure the amendment’s unanimous passage in Parliament.
