Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said while the party바카라s Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi has evoked a massive response, 바카라translating this into votes is the next challenge and doesn바카라t follow axiomatically바카라.
Tharoor, who recently unsuccessfully contested the post of the Congress president, also said his party will need to take other parties, especially regional players, along to mount a challenge in the 2024 general elections.
바카라By own impression is that the way he (Gandhi) has been personally received has done wonders for his image,'' he told reporters on the sidelines of an event organised as part of the Kolkata Literary Festival.
"Now translating this into votes is the next challenge, and that doesn바카라t follow axiomatically," the Congress leader added.
Tharoor's take on letter being written to Rahul Gandhi on Covid-19 threat
Questioned about Covid-19 posing a threat to the Yatra, Tharoor pointed out that the walkathon will end less than a month later on January 26 and that till now the 바카라messages coming바카라 from experts were fairly reassuring.
He also said that the 바카라government was shaken바카라 by the success of the Yatra and a letter written by it warning of the dangers posed by the Covid-19 strain which may have come in from China was 바카라signalling that it was extremely concerned about its success.바카라
바카라The variants that have been doing so much damage in China have already been identified in India in June-July and have not caused any major calamity,바카라 he said adding that the country still needed to be vigilant.
바카라The government is shaken 바카라Š Writing to Rahul that the Covid made the Yatra dangerous was a signal that it was extremely concerned about its success,바카라 the political leader said.
Earlier this week, the Congress had charged that the BJP-led central government was using Covid as an excuse to stop the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
What did he say about IB questionning the participants?
Tharoor also alluded to the Congress party바카라s earlier complaints that Yatra participants were questioned by the Intelligence Bureau.Â
바카라I hope this will not be repeated as we carry on into Haryana, UP and Kashmir 바카라Š my hope is that by allowing the Yatra to come to its planned conclusion, the government will put the interests of Indian democracy ahead of narrow political interests of the ruling party,바카라 he said.
Tharoor also said that though he believed the Congress would emerge as the largest single party from among opposition parties, it would still need to forge ties with other opposition parties ahead of the 2024 general elections.
He said, 바카라Congress is bound to be the largest single opposition parties in the next general elections,바카라 but would still need 바카라a willing coalition of opposition parties around it, especially regional parties.바카라
바카라Opposition unity is very desirable if we are to offer the country an alternative government next time,바카라 said the former minister and UN bureaucrat-turned-author.
바카라Otherwise we will be stuck with the kind of majoritarian rule that all these parties are individually objecting to,바카라 he added.
He said this even as new fissures with opposition parties surfaced. Earlier on Thursday, a key opposition player, former UP chief minister and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said his party's ideology was different from that of the Congress and the BJP.
When asked if he was invited to join the Yatra, Yadav said he did not receive an invitation.
(With PTI Inputs)
