Team News Riveting
New Delhi, September 24
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said his party, as of now, is certainly winning Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh while sceptical about other two states going to the polls.
While asserting that Congress is probably winning Telangana, he said there is a “very close” contest in Rajasthan and the party believes it will emerge victorious finally. He asserted that the opposition is adapting and working together and the BJP is “in for a surprise in 2024” general elections.
Speaking at a conclave organised by the Pratidin Media Network of Assam, Gandhi also said the idea of ‘One Nation, One Election’ was aimed at distracting from real issues of the people. “It’s one of the BJP’s distraction strategies,” he said.
The former Congress President said the main issues in the country were concentration of wealth, huge inequality in wealth, massive unemployment, huge unfairness towards the lower caste, OBCs, and tribal communities, and price rise. “Now, the BJP can’t contest those. So ‘let’s have Mr. Bidhuri make a statement. Let’s get together and sort of have elections together. Let’s change the name of India’. This is all distraction. We know it, we understand it. And we’re not going to let them do it,” he said.
He asserted that it was out of contest to claim that his party (Congress) was not winning any of the states in the upcoming state polls. Assembly polls are scheduled to take place in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram in next couple of months.
While responding to a query, Gandhi said, “I would say, right now, we are probably winning Telangana, we are certainly winning Madhya Pradesh, we are certainly winning Chhattisgarh. Rajasthan, we are very close, and we think we will be able to win. That is what it is looking like, and by the way, that is also what the BJP internally is saying.”
The Congress learnt a very important lesson in Karnataka that the BJP wins elections by distracting and not allowing them to construct their narrative. “So, we fought the polls constructing our party’s narrative,” he said, adding, “What we did in Karnataka is we gave a clear vision for the state, this is the social security programme that we are going to set up for you’ and then we control the narrative.”
“If you look at the Telangana polls, we are controlling the narrative, the BJP is not even in the narrative, it is gone. The BJP has been decimated and it is over in Telangana,” Gandhi said. He claimed that the Congress is controlling the narrative in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
