Cong should bring opposition parties together against BJP: Sharad

Team Udayavani, Aug 3, 2018, 11:06 AM IST

Bhopal: Loktantrik Janta Dal leader Sharad Yadav appealed to the Congress today to take the lead in bringing together all opposition parties on a single platform to dislodge the BJP from power.

Addressing a gathering here, he said the country was currently reeling under an “undeclared democracy” in the BJP rule.

“It (defeating the BJP) will not happen without opposition unity. Those getting 31 per cent votes are ruling now because 69 per cent votes stood divided. The Congress is the biggest opposition party and it should take responsibility to bring all parties on a single platform,” Yadav said while addressing the state-level Lokkranti Sammelan.

The former JD(U) leader also hinted that parties in the proposed Third Front would forge an alliance with the Congress at the national level and in Madhya Pradesh, where assembly polls were due later this year.

“We will have an alliance with the Congress at the national level and also make an effort to have a coalition here (in Madhya Pradesh),” he said in an interaction with reporters after the function.

He said every section of the society was suffering under the BJP-led central government which had caused the “maximum damage” to the country in just four years.

Yadav appealed to the people to vote in the upcoming elections with an objective to save the country and the Constitution and not on the lines of caste and religion. He said the BJP under leaders like (former prime minister) Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani was different from the present one under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Yadav slammed the Modi-led government over the “non-fulfilment” of the electoral promise of creating 2 crore jobs and for demonetising higher currencies.

Accusing the BJP of dividing the society, Yadav claimed, “Cows seem have become more important than their daughters and mothers.” 

He alleged that the Madhya Pradesh government had “ruined” the Narmada and the Tawa rivers by allowing illegal mining.

Yadav said he had coined two slogans, “BJP Bhagao – Desh Bachao” and “Modi Hatao Samvidhan Bachao”.