Mumbai, Sep 1 (UNI) Iterating that parties constituting the I.N.D.I.A alliance represent 60 percent of the country’s population, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday said it would be impossible for the BJP to win next year’s Lok Sabha polls if the I.N.D.I.A bloc puts up a united fight.
“The most important thing to understand is that this stage represents 60 percent of the Indian population. If the parties on the stage unite, it is impossible for the BJP to win the election. So, the task in front of us is to come together in the most efficient way possible,” Gandhi said at a joint media conference of the I.N.D.I.A. alliance after its third conclave here.
Stating that the alliance has taken “two big steps” in its two-day meeting at the country’s commercial capital, Gandhi said “The first step is we have formed a coordination committee and committees under that committee”.
“And the second step is we have taken a decision that we will expedite all seat sharing discussions and decisions and make them happen as soon as possible,” said the former Congress president.
Alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government was extracting money from the county’s poor peope and transferring it to a limited few, Gandhi said the the I.N.D.I.A alliance would come up with an alternative development path.
“The Prime Minister and the BJP are a nexus of corruption and that is the first thing that the INDIA alliance is going to demonstrate and prove. The idea behind the Prime Minister Modi’s government is to extract money from the poor people of this country and transfer it to a limited few and so, we are going to propose a clear development path.
“We are going to put together a clear set of ideas that will once again involve the poor people, the farmers, the kisans, the workers in the progress of this country,” he said.
Gandhi said after the three meetings of the anti-BJP parties, he could say with confidence that the conclaves have helped build a “huge amount of rapport among all the leaders” in ensuring “all of us work together as one”.
“I can see that there is flexibility among all the leaders, in the way we are approaching things. There are differences of course, but, I am extremely impressed by the way those differences are minimised and ironed out,” he added.
Gandhi also alleged that the media in the country has been “chained” and averred that the I.N.D.I.A alliance was working to “free you from your chains”
