BJP can be beaten in 2024 Lok Sabha polls if Oppn unites says Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar urging all opposition parties to unite.
“Everyone should remain united. If we remain united, we will win maximum seats in 2024. We don’t want the Third Front. Ours will be the main front,” Nitish Kumar said on Sunday at the open session of the national council meeting of the Janata Dal (United).
Kumar’s JD(U) fell out with the BJP in Bihar and formed a government in alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress in August this year. He has been a trenchant critic of the saffron outfit since then. The BJP was working against the JD(U) despite being in an alliance in the 2020 assembly elections, he said.
“During the assembly elections in 2020, our party won fewer seats. Despite having an alliance, the ally (BJP) was busy ensuring our defeat,” the JD(U) leader said. “Never before had our party won such a low number of seats in the 2005 or 2010 assembly elections. We suffered in 2020 as they tried to ensure the defeat of our candidates.”
The BJP engineered defections in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur as well, he accused. “All these made us move out. They will be taught a lesson in the next elections,” he added.
The big defeat of the BJP during the Himachal elections and Delhi municipal elections certainly gave a big boost to other parties reinforcing the fact that the BJP is not invincible.