Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday said that he feels the party could nominate either its chief Mallikarjun Kharge or Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister if the INDIA alliance comes to power in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
He further added that there could be a surprise result in the election next year as there is an opposition coalition and there are chances of the INDIA alliance coming to power at the Centre by trouncing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA in the general elections, PTI reported.
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“So we’ll have to wait and see”, he said while interacting with professionals of a US-based and Silicon Valley-incubated D2C (Direct-to-Consumer) marketplace Way.com after inaugurating its office at Technopark here.
INDIA bloc, an alliance of 28 Opposition parties including Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC), has been formed to take on the BJP in the 2024 elections.
Talking about the post-poll scenario, Tharoor said, “I think that once the result comes out, then because it’s a coalition and not one party, the leaders of those parties will have to get together and pick someone. But my guess is that from the Congress Party, it’s going to be either Kharge, who then will be the first Dalit Prime Minister of India, or Rahul Gandhi since in very many ways it (Congress) is a family-run party.”
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The alliance — Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A) — has resolved to save the character of the republic “being severely assaulted in a systematic manner by the BJP” and safeguard the idea of India as enshrined in the Constitution.
(With inputs from PTI)