Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday rubbished Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s predictions of the NDA’s victory in the Bihar assembly polls, pointing out that their 400 plus claim in the Lok Sabha elections was way off the mark.
He spoke to PTI Video in Gaya, where he insisted that “all was not well” in the BJP-led coalition, as there were doubts that Nitish Kumar, the JD(U) president and longest-serving chief minister, would be backed for another term in office.
“The Prime Minister can say anything. Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, they kept saying 400 paar,” said Kharge, pointing to the performance of the BJP in last year’s general elections, when it fell short of a majority and became dependent on allies like JD(U) and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP for survival in power.
When his attention was drawn to the fact that Shah, the most trusted aide of Modi and the BJP’s principal strategist, has been claiming that the​Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday rubbished Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s predictions of the NDA’s victory in the Bihar assembly polls, pointing out that their 400 plus claim in the Lok Sabha elections was way off the mark.
He spoke to PTI Video in Gaya, where he insisted that “all was not well” in the BJP-led coalition, as there were doubts that Nitish Kumar, the JD(U) president and longest-serving chief minister, would be backed for another term in office.
“The Prime Minister can say anything. Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, they kept saying 400 paar,” said Kharge, pointing to the performance of the BJP in last year’s general elections, when it fell short of a majority and became dependent on allies like JD(U) and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP for survival in power.
When his attention was drawn to the fact that Shah, the most trusted aide of Modi and the BJP’s principal strategist, has been claiming that the ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
