"We don't have any interest in this. Even people do not have any interest in it. Our leader is Narendra Modi. There is no question of thinking of any other leader after having such a powerful leader like Modi," Suvendu Adhikari said.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has turned down suggestion about being the prime ministerial candidate of the INDIA bloc for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and said the issue will be decided later and their first priority is to try and get a majority by working together.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that the Prime Minister candidate of the opposition alliance - INDIA bloc will be decided after 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday asserted that members of the INDIA bloc will sit together and decide the Prime Ministerial face if voted to power in the Lok Sabha polls in 2024.
Fueling the "poster war" within the INDIA bloc, Congress workers on Thursday put up posters portraying Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial candidate outside the party's headquarters in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow.
"CM Nitish Kumar has all the qualities needed for PM...Whenever the INDIA alliance will announce the name for the PM candidate, it will be Nitish Kumar's name...," he told ANI on Sunday.
It was only a 14-hour meeting and they took nothing from this meeting. They did not even decide on who is going to be their PM face, said Cabinet Minister Uday Samant.
Nitish Kumar reiterated that he has no prime ministerial ambitions but will lead the opposition's efforts to fight against the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
"It is fine...If someone asks me, I will say Uddhav Thackeray should be the one (PM candidate of the INDIA alliance). On hand, there is the BJP that, out of fear, can take just one name. If Nitin Gadkari's name comes forth mistakenly, his career is ended, " Priyanka Chaturvedi said.
Setting the cat among the pigeons ahead of the third meeting of the Opposition bloc — Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) — Aam Admi Party (AAP) spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar on Wednesday said she would want party convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Ke
"INDIA alliance will choose the Prime Ministerial candidate. Congress party alone can't select and it depends upon the opinion of all parties of INDIA alliance. Being a Congress MLA, worker I do believe that, Rahul Gandhi will be the most acceptable Prime Ministerial candidate of the INDIA a
Kharge's remarks on Wednesday are seemingly at variance with his remarks in Bharat Yatra Jodo event in November last year in which he had said that Congress will bring non-BJP government to power under its leadership and that of Rahul Gandhi.