New Delhi:
A jubilant Prime Minister Narendra Modi – celebrating his Bharatiya Janata Party‘s win within the 2025 Delhi election – ripped into an already battered Congress in a victory speech Saturday night, accusing his rival of “stealing” agendas and voters from its allies, and “ending (them), one after the other”.
In a protracted speech on the BJP’s metropolis HQ, he launched a ferocious assault, calling the Congress a “parasite get together” and mocking it for failing to win a single seat in six consecutive main Delhi elections; the get together has received zero seats in every of the final three state and federal elections within the metropolis.
“I’ve mentioned earlier than… the Congress is a parasite get together. They take different events with them each time they’re drowning. Their methodology is exclusive… they steal their agendas after which goal their voters. In Uttar Pradesh, they’re concentrating on the Samajwadi Social gathering and Bahujan Samaj Social gathering voters,” he mentioned.
“They’re doing the identical factor in Tamil Nadu (the place the ruling DMK is an ally) and Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. It’s clear… whoever holds Congress’ fingers, their finish is inevitable.”
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“Those that are holding the Congress’ fingers are getting destroyed… as a result of it isn’t the identical Congress that was there earlier than Independence… at the moment it’s doing ‘city Naxal’ politics. They wish to deliver anarchy… and AAP-da (the BJP’s pejorative time period for the AAP) was making an attempt to do the identical.”
The Prime Minister’s broadside on the Congress comes amid rising uncertainty over the INDIA opposition bloc led by the get together. Shaped in June 2023 to defeat the BJP in state and federal elections, the group has floundered and flattered to impress in many of the 14 main polls since; the exception, maybe, was the Lok Sabha election in April-June final yr, by which the BJP was held to <300 seats.
And the Congress has come beneath hearth for failing to agree seat-share offers with smaller INDIA bloc members, together with the AAP. The 2 events, which joined fingers for the Delhi Lok Sabha election (which resulted in a BJP clear sweep anyway) have been anticipated to re-ally for final yr’s Haryana ballot.
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That, nonetheless, didn’t occur after the Congress’ state unit merely refused to play ball. Equally, expectations of an AAP-Congress deal earlier than the Delhi election have been additionally dashed.
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In every case the AAP and Congress’ vote shares mixed would have been greater than that received by the BJP. Whether or not that may have translated to extra votes is unclear, but it surely does point out there’s nonetheless house for a non-BJP coalition entrance, as long as it’s features lengthy sufficient to contest an election.
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A purposeful opposition entrance should still not be sufficient to defeat Mr Modi and his BJP’s formidable election-winning equipment, however it’s going to, as a minimum, make elections extra intently fought.
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