Aiming to oust Modi
Subhrangshu Gupta
Mamata Banerjee and Chandrababu Naidu
Afresh move has been
made by the opposition
sparties for ousting the
BJP from power. This
time the initiative has
been made jointly by
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu and
Mamata Banerjee.
The BJP is also not sitting idle.
Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and party chief Amit Shah have
taken the decision of firmly
counteracting the campaign by the
opposition parties.
Modi and Shah decided to kick-off
the Lok sabha poll campaign from
Kolkata and Bhubaneswar
respectively.
States BJP leaders proposed that
both Modi and Shah contest from
these two states- from West Bengal
and Odisha respectively.
The Assembly election in five
different states- Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Mizoram and
Telenghana are being held and their
results be declared on 11 December.
Naidu said these results will further
expose BJP’s declining support of
the people.
The BJP is also not
sitting idle. Both Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
and party chief Amit
Shah have taken the
decision of firmly
counteracting the
campaign of the
Opposition parties.
Modi and Amit Shah
The TDP leader said it was the
right time that all the opposition
parties should get together and
unite themselves for launching
massive drive against the Modi
government.
He said the prime ministership
could be decided on the basis of
results vis-vis the performances of
the respective parties.
Mamata said the prime
ministership issue could be decided
later and the decision should be
honourable and acceptable to all.
Rahul Gandhi said he was not
fighting the polls as the prime
ministerial candidate.
Naidu already met Sonia Gandhi
and Rahul Gandhi as well as
Mayabati, Akhilesh Yadav and
Karnataka chief minister, H D
Kumarswami and his father H D
Deve-Gowda and held some
informal talks with them in this connection. Mamata held
discussions with Dr Farouq Abdulla
and CPI(m) leader Sitaram Yechuri.
Naidu will be coming to Kolkata
on 19 December to hold further
talks with Mamata regarding the
formation of the grand alliance
(Maha jotbandhan) and fighting the
Lok Sabha polls against the BJP. On
22 December all the Opposition
leaders will be meeting in Delhi to
finalize a decision in this regard.
During his recent visit to Kolkata,
Shah met the state BJP leaders and
chalked out a detailed campaign
programme for ousting the TMC
government from power in the
coming Lok sabha polls. He targeted
the BJP to get at least 22 seats (total 42) from the states which will
strengthen their government in the
center. At present, the party has
only two Lok sabha seats from the
state.
Shah was confident the BJP will
once again come to power under
Narendra Modi’s leadership with
thumping majority because of their
welfare work and good governance.
He asked the state BJP leaders and
workers to spread the government’s
welfare activities and merits of
demonitisation and their drives
against corruption and corrupt
people during their first five-year
term.
Mamata alleged that under the
BJP government, the country was going to be once again divided on
the basis of the religion. The RSS and
the BJP were conspiring to convert
India into a Hindu rastra at the cost
of the country’s peace, unity and
integrity. She said this heinous
attempt could be stopped by the
joint and united resistance of the
political parties and the people.
Mamata said the TMC would
organize a massive rally at Kolkata
maidan on 23 January on the
occasion of the Netaji’s birthday,
where leaders of all the parties
would be invited. She felt this could
be an occasion for the Opposition
parties to firmly resolve for fighting
against the BJP and saving the
country from destruction.