All parties, including the Congress need to come together to defeat the BJP in 2024: Nitish Kumar

New Delhi, Set 26: All Opposition parties need to unite to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Sunday. Kumar, along with other Opposition leaders NCP chief Sharad Pawar and CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, was attending a rally organized by former Haryana chief minister and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Om Prakash Chautala in Haryana’s Fatehabad.

 

 

 

The rally marks the 109th birth anniversary of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal but is also speculated as an attempt of the INLD chief to unite the Opposition against BJP.

 

 

 

Recalling his time spent with political veteran Devi Lal, Kumar said, “I can never forget those days when I was young and Devi Lal guided and inspired me.” Urging all Opposition parties to come together, Kumar said, “If all these parties get together, they (BJP) won’t be able to win at all in 2024 Lok Sabha polls.” He added that he has “spoken at length with Sharad Pawar” and also “requested the Congress” to join them. “I would like to seek blessings of Om Prakash Chautala and urge him that he should do get more opposition parties together,” Kumar said while adding that there is no fight between Hindus and Muslims, it is the BJP which want wants to create disturbances. RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who was also a part of Sunday’s meet said the JD(U), SAD, and the Shiv Sena left the BJP-led NDA to save the constitution and democracy. Chautala briefed the gathering about the problems that the country’s farmers have been facing for years. “People of all castes and color, people from all walks of life are fed up with this government [at the Centre] today… The country’s economy is based on agriculture but this government has ruined us [farmers]. If we get a good crop, then we don’t get the MSP; our crops are snatched away at throwaway prices. Farmers don’t get their dues for years.”

 

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Taking a dig at the BJP over farmer suicides and last year’s farmers’ protests, Pawar said, “The farmers of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh sacrificed their lives, they struggled peacefully for a year, but they were booked in criminal cases. Assurances were given that the cases shall be withdrawn, but haven’t been done so far. Today, farmers are forced to keep appearing in courts of law, and every hour, we are reading that some farmer somewhere has committed suicide.”