It is “impossible” for the BJP to replicate its 2019 election victory in 2024, senior parliamentary leader Shashi Tharoor argued on Friday as the ruling party loses “50 seats” in the lower house of parliament. He added that it was “possible”.
Speaking here at the Kerala Literature Festival, MP Thiruvananthapuram acknowledged the superiority of the BJP, but also said that it is not impossible to lose many states and lose the central government.
“If you look at how well they (BJP) have done in 2019, they basically have all the seats in Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan or the MP (Madhya Pradesh) in Bihar, Maharashtra. It has won all but one seat, and 18 in Bengal: “It is currently impossible to replicate all of these results, and it is quite possible that the BJP will fall short of the majority in 2024. in India@75: A walk through the democratic Institutions,” argued Tharoor.
He said it ended the Pulwama and Balakot attacks and caused a last-minute “tremendous wave” of “freaks” not to be repeated in 2024. But on the key question of whether the opposition, which he predicts will overwhelm the BJP, will unite, he said it was “impossible to answer.”
“If the BJP is 250 and others are 290…then 290 of them will agree or the BJP will choose 20 here and 10 there from the political parties seeking favor from the then central government and form a government. I don’t know,” he said. The BJP won 303 out of 543 seats in the 2019 House of Representatives election, but the parliament won only 52 seats.
On the challenges facing India 75 years after independence, Thalor acknowledged that dynasticism in democracy is a “challenge,” but said those who support his party should look across the country. He argued that, ironically, all parties at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, with the exception of “the Communists and the BJP,” appear to have dynastic politics.
“If you point your finger and say ‘Congress Dynasty’… you look around the country and you see Murayam Singh (Yadav) inherited by his son, Lal Prasad Yadav inherited by his son, Karunanidhi inherited by his son. You can see that my son Bal Thackeray will be succeeded by my son Sharad Pawar…he is there but his heirs presumptive are his daughter and his nephew,” he added. rice field.
Known as one of Asia’s largest literary competitions, the Kerala Literature Festival hosts a diverse range of literary and cultural icons, from Nobel Prize winners, Booker Prize-winning authors and senior politicians to historians, filmmakers, diplomats and artists will gather. The list of speakers includes 2022 Booker Prize winner Shehan Karnatilaka, Nobel laureates Ada Yonas and Abhijit Banerjee, American Indologist Wendy Doniger, actor Kamal Haasan, children’s author Sudha Marty, and veteran singer of Usha Usup.
