A Meeting of ‘opportunists and Power-hungry’ Leaders: BJP on Opposition Meet in Bengaluru

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday described the meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru as a “meeting of opportunists and power-hungry leaders” and said such an alliance would not benefit the country at present or in the future.

In a press conference, BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed opposition parties on who will be the face of their leadership against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, saying they will go out with their ‘barakat’ (wedding procession) without their ‘dolha’ (groom ).

Prasad also mocked AAP President and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and said he would attend the meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru instead of being in the national capital to provide relief to the people affected by the floods.

He also criticized the Congress claiming that it had not said a word about the “mismanagement” of the Kejriwal government during the flood situation in Delhi or about the violence during the polling panchayats in West Bengal, where the Transitional Military Council led by Mamata Banerjee is in power.

Senior leaders of 26 opposition parties, including the Congress, AAP and TMC, are expected to attend the two-day brainstorming session in Bengaluru from Monday evening and are likely to start work on the Joint Minimum Program and announce a joint agitational plan which the BJP has faced. Janata in Lok Sabha polls 2024.

“It is very painful that Arvind Kejriwal is going to participate in the opposition meeting in Bengaluru at a time when people are affected by floods in Delhi and are facing many problems,” Prasad said. “Arvind Kejriwal ji, your job was to be here in the field and wipe away the tears of those affected by the floods in Delhi. You should have been here to make sure the system is in order, people get relief. But you went to Bengaluru.

The BJP leader of the left-wing parties also questioned their silence over the recent violence in the panchayat elections in West Bengal.

BJP workers as well as Congress workers and leftists were killed in violence. Why doesn’t Congress say anything about Bengal violence? Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M leader) continues to seek accounts on democracy from PM Modi. Why doesn’t he say anything about the violence of the Panchayat elections in Bengal? Prasad charged.

He added that the “alleged” group of opposition parties had “completely” avoided “with impunity” issues of good governance and integrity in public life.

“The meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru is a meeting of opportunists and power-hungry leaders,” Prasad told reporters.

“Such an alliance is neither good for India’s present nor its future,” he charged.

(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)