Prime Minister Modi remains ‘the unchallenged king’: Fadnavis
The Hindu
Addressing a party gathering in Nagpur to welcome the ostracised Congress leader Ashish Deshmukh into the BJP’s fold, Mr. Fadnavis disparaged the joint Opposition meeting scheduled to take part in Patna on June 23.
Deriding the Opposition’s planned show of unity at a gathering in Patna scheduled for this week, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on June 18 said it was not possible to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi even if all Opposition parties joined hands, and that Mr. Modi remained the “unchallenged king”.
Mr. Fadnavis further claimed that the BJP would win an even higher tally in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections than its previous score of 302 in the 2019 parliamentary poll.
Addressing a party gathering in Nagpur to welcome the ostracised Congress leader Ashish Deshmukh into the BJP’s fold, Mr. Fadnavis disparaged the joint Opposition meeting scheduled to take part in Patna on June 23.
“All Opposition parties are now planning to meet in Patna. A similar attempt was made ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The result was that the Congress only won a mere 48 seats,” Mr. Fadnavis said.
“In a jungle, no matter how many animals unite, they cannot hunt a tiger who rules the place. Similarly, Mr. Modi is a tiger. While I am not saying the Opposition leaders are animals, no matter what their numbers are, they cannot defeat the PM,” he further quipped.
Hinting there was no consensus among Opposition leaders, Mr. Fadnavis issued an open challenge to them to declare their leader before the 2024 General Elections.
“West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is unhappy with the Congress because of its affinity to the Left parties. Nitish Kumar has his own issues…nobody wishes to acknowledge anybody as leader. Similar cracks have developed within the MVA [Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance] in Maharashtra as well. The Congress and the NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) are upset with Uddhav Thackeray and their leaders are grumbling as to why they must tolerate Thackeray’s highhandedness,” Mr. Fadnavis alleged.
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