Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday informed that the Opposition INDIA bloc would decide on its Prime Minister candidate today adding that the alliance was formed to end the dictatorship in the country and save the Constitution.
"The manner in which questions are being raised again and again on the electoral process and dictatorship of the Election Commission - what does all of this indicate? That elected Governments belong to the country. Why did it start belonging to a party? I consider that the Congress party has
Even as the initial trends on the counting day show the BJP leading, Delhi Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday said that the INDIA alliance will win the 2024 Lok Sabha elections making an end to the dictatorship".
In a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tikait while speaking to reporters on Sunday said, "We have already said that in a country where the king is an astrologer and a dictator, what will the exit polls do? Who is going to counter whatever the king says?"
"Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was out on bail granted by Supreme Court for 21 days. He has gone back to jail and we hope that after 4th June, once the dictatorship ends, he will come out soon," Gopal Rai said.
As the voting in the seventh and final phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election began on Saturday, Aam Aadmi Party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to the voters to exercise their franchise in large numbers "to protect democracy and the Constitution."
"India is standing at a crucial juncture. In the impending last phase of voting, we have one final chance to ensure that Democracy and our Constitution are protected from the repeated assaults of a despotic regime, trying to unleash dictatorship in India," Manmohan Singh said.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday lashed at the BJP-led NDA regime at the Centre calling it a "despotic regime trying to unleash dictatorship in India".
After the Delhi Court summoned Delhi Minister Atishi in a defamation case, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal termed it a "dictatorship," and alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to arrest all Aam Aadmi Party leaders.
Taking a swipe at Trinamool Congress', BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Tuesday equated TMC with appeasement, dictatorship and Taliban, expanding the party's acronym, to 'Tushtikaran mujhe chahiye', 'Tanashahi mujhe chahiye', 'Talibani mujhe chahiye'.