New Delhi, Dec 12, 2022: In his address to an open session of the Janata Dal (United) national council in Patna on Sunday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar stated that the opposition parties can win the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with an ‘overwhelming majority’ if they agree to remain with each other.
“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,” he said.
Unfazed by the defeat faced at the Kurhani by-polls, Nitish Kumar on Sunday said that ‘Mission 2024 aimed to remove BJP government at the centre’ will be possible only if the opposition is united.
Kumar told party workers that he did not have any interest in a by-poll as he said, “The other alliance partners wanted us to contest. BJP lost at several places but a huge cry is being raised over our loss.”
Raising allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for working against his party, Kumar said that BJP was working against the JD(U) even though they were in an alliance in the 2020 assembly elections.
“During the 2020 assembly elections, our party won fewer seats. Despite having an alliance, the ally was busy to ensure our defeat. Never before our party has won such a low number of seats in the 2005 or 2010 assembly elections. We suffered in 2020 because BJP tried to undermine and the defeat of our candidates,” he said.
Despite being an alliance party, the BJP carried out defections in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, stated Nitish, further adding “All these made us move out. They will be taught a lesson in the next elections.”
The national president of JD(U), Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, said that Kumar’s model of good governance was being adopted by the centre.
“The nation is being hurtled towards authoritarianism. The government at the centre has done nothing worthwhile in the eight and a half years it has been at the helm,” alleged Lalan
