‘Congress alone gave an alternative to BJP’: Sharad Pawar on Karnataka election results

New Delhi: Reacting to the results of the Karnataka assembly elections, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said that the Congress alone has given an alternative to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Speaking to reporters after meeting Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja, Pawar indicated that the Karnataka template needed to be replicated in other states, and for this, like-minded parties should come up with a common minimum programme. cmp) will have to work. ,

“Karnataka assembly elections have given a message. We need to work on creating a Karnataka-like situation in other states. Congress alone has given an alternative to BJP in Karnataka, but like-minded parties have to work in other states.” A common minimum program (CMP),” Sharad Pawar said.

We will work on both the fronts (to make strategy like Karnataka and CMP) and we are starting this process, he said.

In the elections held on 10 May for the 224-member Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the Congress won 135 seats and ousted the BJP, which won 66, from the only state it ruled in South India. The emphatic victory of the Congress in Karnataka comes amid opposition parties looking for a united front against the saffron party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Karnataka election result ‘a boost’ for MVA: Maharashtra NCP chief

State NCP chief Jayant Patil on Sunday said the BJP’s humiliating defeat in Karnataka is a boost for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra, which will put up a united challenge to the ruling party in the 2024 polls by taking smaller parties together.

Speaking to reporters after attending the MVA meeting at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence in Mumbai, Patil said the MVA – comprising Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP and Congress – will work out a seat-sharing formula ahead of the Lok Sabha. Will do and Maharashtra assembly elections. MVA leaders including Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Uddhav Thackeray and state Congress chief Nana Patole attended the meeting.

Patil said, “Like in Karnataka, I am sure the MVA will win the confidence of the people in Maharashtra and work with more vigour.”

He said the MVA leaders have decided to hold talks with other smaller parties and are looking forward to present a united opposition to the current dispensation in the country in 2024.

“The three constituents of the MVA will meet and work out the seat-sharing formula ahead of the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly polls. We are making a steady and slow start,” Patil said.