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| Cong has to be pivot of any oppn alliance: Jairam Ramesh | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: Member of Parliament and General Secretary Incharge Communication, Congress Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said Congress has to be the pivot of any opposition alliance during the elections.
Ramesh said after the conclusion of the Rahul Gandhi led Bharat Jodo Yatra on Monday in Srinagar the Congress will begin the process of political talks and political negotiations.
He said it was not a setback if any party who was invited by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to attend the concluding function of the Yatra in Srinagar is not attending. The Congress president had invited leaders from 24 like-minded parties to Srinagar to attend Yatra conclusion function.
The Congress leader argued that the function on the 30th is not a coalition building exercise.
"Let me make it absolutely clear that the function on the 30th is not a coalition building exercise. .. An invitation was extended in good faith to like minded political parties who we believe oppose the policies and the programmes of the BJP. It is not to build a platform for 2024. It was a courtesy call that we extended to like minded parties to come and take part in the formal conclusion of the Bharat Jodo Yatra," he said while addressing a press conference in Srinagar.
"It is not a setback (if anyone is not attending). ?We invited them in good faith but we believe that any attempt to build a meaningful, winning coalition against the BJP must be pivoted around the Congress," he said. Ramesh did not divulge the number of parties not attending the function in Srinagar.
Ramesh said in order to defeat the BJP, any opposition platform must be based on two realities.
"One is that Congress must be the pivot or a fulcrum of any opposition alliance and without the Congress no opposition alliance is relevant or meaningful. Number two, any opposition alliance must be based on a constructive agenda not just a negative agenda of anti-BJPism or anti-governmentism or anti-regime. It has to be based on a positive, constructive, agenda," Ramesh said. |
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