"All Non-BJP Parties Need To...": Sharad Pawar On Big 2024 Strategy

Sharad Pawar said the BJP had been rejected in a majority of the states where it was ruling, adding that the saffron party had toppled elected governments to grab power.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said he would persuade all opposition parties to forge unity based on a common minimum programme to provide an alternative to the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.

Talking to reporters, the opposition stalwart said the Bharatiya Janata Party had been rejected in a majority of the states where it was ruling, adding that the saffron party had toppled elected governments to grab power.

"If the people have rejected the BJP at the state level, their (citizens) view will not be any different at the national level," the NCP chief asserted.

Informing that he would put forth his view in the meeting of opposition parties to be held in Patna in Bihar on June 23, Mr Pawar said, "All non-BJP parties need to sit together and think about forging opposition unity on the basis of a common minimum programme." "The BJP made big assurances, raised expectations of people but did nothing. It is time to provide an alternative," the former Union minister said.