TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has scoffed at opposition efforts to forge a Mahagathbandhan for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, saying it was nothing but their compulsion and a vindication of the BJP-led government’s success.
The Prime Minister said the proposed grand alliance of the opposition was leaderless, had no clear policy and its intentions were corrupt. The opposition parties had failed to deliver when they were in power and now in their present role, he claimed.
PM Modi also had a veiled dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi, saying that various opposition parties were not prepared to give the Congress any leadership role, with some even regarding it a burden.
Addressing the concluding session of the BJP National Executive, PM Modi said that there was also a situation of non-acceptance of the leadership within the Congress which he said spoke “lies.” Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad later briefed the media about PM Modi’s remarks.
