After the INDIA bloc meeting concluded on Wednesday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge thanked the people for supporting them and said that the bloc would continue to fight against the fascist rule of the BJP led by PM Modi.
West Bengal contributes 42 Lok Sabha seats in the 543-member Parliament. The BJPs' main focus was to dislodge Mamata Banerjee from West Bengal and even targeted the TMC government over Sandeshkhali, but the BJP won in 12 seats, down from its earlier tally of 18 seats in the 2019 polls.
After the NDA meeting, the alliance leaders unanimously elected Narendra Modi as their leader in the proposal passed by the leaders of the NDA in Delhi.
Further, he mentioned that in the NDA meeting being held today at the Prime Minister's house, they will support the candidature of Narendra Modi for the PM post.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Rajya Sabha MP Mahua Maji praised the efforts of Kalpana Soren and Champai Soren for managing things in the absence of JMM chief Hemant Soren.
After Congress' KL Sharma defeated Bhartiya Janta Party's Smriti Irani in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi, the newly elected party MP asserted that the senior leaders of the party have asked him to stay humble and not fill himself with ego after becoming an MP.
After Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) chief Sharad Pawar reached New Delhi to attend the meeting organised by the INDIA bloc, Pawar asserted that he will not speak to Chandrababu Naidu or Nitish Kumar unless a decision will be taken by the INDIA bloc in the meeting.
In a press conference, on the questions of Rahul Gandhi's prospects of becoming Prime Minister, the Shiv Sena UBT leader said, "If Rahul Gandhi is ready to accept the leadership, why would we object? He has proven himself as a national leader for multiple times. He is one of the popular l