The former Union minister also said if most of the Opposition parties have now found a new reason to come together and stop dividing each other’s vote, the BJP might find it much harder to win a majority in the 2024 elections.
Asked about Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s ‘thank you Germany’ tweet after that country took note of Gandhi’s disqualification, Tharoor said he would have advised his senior party colleague not to say what he did.
The international attention – and the negative press for India – should not surprise Mr (Narendra) Modi and his government. Doubts about the democratic credentials of this government have been growing for some years, as is evident from the global media, he said.
Still, I would have advised my highly respected senior colleague and friend not to say what he did. It has always been an article of faith for the Congress party that we do not require or accept any foreign tutelage after 200 years of subjection to colonial rule, Tharoor stressed. That pride is deeply ingrained in every Indian, he said, asserting that we are perfectly capable of solving our problems.
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If the Surat court verdict gives India a more united Opposition, it could be bad news for a ruling party that won the 2019 elections with just 37 percent of the vote but more than 60 percent of the Lok Sabha seats, he contended.
The rest of the votes went to 35 victorious parties, all represented in the current Parliament; if most of them have now found a new reason to come together and stop dividing each other’s vote, the BJP might find it much harder to win a majority in 2024, Tharoor asserted.
Asked if the Congress would be the fulcrum around which an Opposition alliance can be built to take on the BJP in 2024, he said, Objectively we are the only Opposition party with a national footprint. There are about 200 seats where the elections will witness a straight fight between the Congress and the BJP.
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All other Opposition parties are essentially strong in one state and have a presence in just one or two more, he said, adding that in the circumstances we will de facto be the fulcrum around which the Opposition converges to offer a credible alternative.
Asked if he sees a parallel in Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification with that of his grandmother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, Tharoor said there is little doubt that public sympathy is with Rahul Gandhi after this reprehensible disqualification and jail sentence.
People realize it is not good for democracy that the principal leader of the major Opposition party is sentenced to jail and denied a voice in Parliament, he said. When putting it that way, even several BJP voters tend to say that it’s deeply damaging to democracy, he claimed.
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