Rahul Gandhi, a Congress member, claimed today at a gathering in Delhi that the BJP will experience a “surprise” in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and that his party will triumph in the upcoming assembly elections in Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan. Additionally, he discussed a “very important lesson” the Congress learned in Karnataka, where they took office earlier this year, and how they have since made changes.
“Right now, we are probably winning Telangana, we are certainly winning Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, we are very close in Rajasthan, and we think we will be able to win. That’s what BJP is also saying internally,” Mr Gandhi can be heard saying in a video posted on X by his party.
The lesson from Karnataka was, the former Congress president said, that the BJP wins elections by distracting and not allowing them to construct their own narrative.
“And so what we did in Karnataka, we fought the election in a way where the BJP could not define the narrative. What you’re seeing today, Mr Bidhuri, and then suddenly this Nishikant Dubey, this is all the BJP trying to distract from the idea of the Caste census. They know that it’s a fundamental thing the people want, and they don’t want to have that discussion,” Rahul Gandhi said, referring to BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s recent communal slurs against BSP MP Danish Ali inside the Lok Sabha.
“Whenever we bring a point to the table, they use this type of stuff to divert, and we have learned how to deal with it,” Mr. Gandhi said, adding that they are adjusting and managing the narrative among the people in a situation “where BJP controls the media.” He cited instances of Rajasthani social welfare programmes and asserted that as a result, residents had a positive view of the state’s administration.
Speaking at a conference sponsored by Assam’s Pratidin Media Network, Mr Gandhi further stated that the concept of ‘One Nation, One Election’ was designed to divert attention away from people’s true concerns.
“It’s one of the BJP’s distraction strategies,” he asserted.
According to him, the key concerns in India are wealth concentration, large wealth disparity, massive unemployment, huge unfairness against lower castes, OBCs, and tribal tribes, and price rise.
“Now, the BJP can’t contest those. So ‘let’s have Mr Bidhuri make a statement. Let’s get together and sort of have elections together. Let’s change the name of India’. This is all distraction. We know it, we understand it. And we’re not going to let them do it,” he said.
Rahul Gandhi also alleged that the opposition parties are facing a “financial and media attack”, but are doing well despite that.
“Go and ask any businessman in India what happens to them if they support an opposition party. If they were to write a cheque for any opposition party, ask them what happens to them,” he said
The opposition bloc INDIA is not fighting a political party now, Mr Gandhi said, but fighting the Indian state. “We are fighting to defend the idea of India. And that is why we have given our name INDIA,” he added.
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Source: NDTV
