Congress Should Be Fulcrum Of Any National Coalition Against NDA: Tejashwi Yadav

Tejashwi Yadav said Congress should focus on them while allowing regional parties to be in the driver's seat in the other constituencies.

The Congress is a national party with a pan-India presence and it is quite natural that it should be the fulcrum of any national coalition against the BJP-led NDA, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said on Sunday. In an interview with PTI, he also said that the Congress is in a direct fight with the BJP on more than 200 Lok Sabha seats and should focus on them while allowing regional parties to be in the driver's seat in the other constituencies. Asked about the meeting of Opposition leaders and several civil society members at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Shared Pawar's house here last week, the RJD leader said he was not aware what transpired in the meeting. However, the former Bihar deputy chief minister asserted that definitely all like-minded parties should come together with a common minimum programme to defeat "this most oppressive, divisive, authoritarian and fascist government".