Opposition unity 'impossible' without Congress: Shiv Sena

02 Jul 2018 Evaluate

The Shiv Sena has said that despite having low numbers in Parliament and losing power in many states, the Congress is still the only party which enjoys national acceptance and no opposition unity is possible without it.  Commenting on the ongoing unity efforts among major opposition parties in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Sena said all the opposition parties were essentially regional forces, unlike the Congress which remains a ‘national force’ by all reckoning.

The Sena, in edits in its mouthpieces ‘Saamana’ and ‘Dopahar Ka Saamana’, said ‘The real problem before the opposition parties is whether to accept Rahul Gandhi's leadership or not as there are many aspirants for the post of Prime Minister among opposition leaders’. Dwelling on the current political scenario, it said the secret of the Bharatiya Janata Party's success was that it enjoyed a majority in Parliament, had huge wealth at its command, could ‘buy’ anything with the added advantage of disunity in the opposition.

The Sena said that in spite of all this, BJP's failures are evident and there is anger among the people. All allies have abandoned it and now it has dawned on BJP that only the regional parties can help it sail through the 2019 elections. Asserting that there is no alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the BJP, which also suffers from a trust deficit, the Sena noted that the party had so far benefited only from the disarray in opposition ranks.

He asked ‘in this scenario, if the BJP's tally falls by over 100 seats, then will it get MPs from Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump or the UAE?. In the past four years, people (in India) have gone against the BJP, but it has secured friendship of Putin and Trump. But how will this help in the elections?’

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