Congress MP Francisco Sardinha claimed on Monday that the Congress is the “only party” capable of defeating the BJP, and that Rahul Gandhi should now abandon the Bharat Jodo Yatra and campaign in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.
“I want Rahul Gandhi to stop the Bharat Jodo Yatra and go to Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat to awaken the public so that they vote for the only party that can defeat BJP. The only party that can be an opposition to BJP is Congress,” said Congress MP Francisco Sardinha after casting his vote for the next president of Congress.
The Election Commission announced on Friday that the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections will be held on November 12 and the votes will be counted on December 8.
The 182-member Gujarat Assembly will be elected later this year.
Sardinha, a former Chief Minister of Goa, made this claim after casting his vote and also claimed that there is no point in contesting when one’s defeat is certain.
“Shashi Tharoor is my colleague. If I had to meet I would have requested him for it because I knew everybody would be for Mallikarjun, so what is the point when you know that you are 100 per cent going to lose, you just want to show that you contested,” Sardinha said adding that he was sure of veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge’s victory for the party’s president post.
“Nothing new, there have been elections earlier, unopposed, Madam Sonia ji was the president, Rahul ji was the president and now there are elections and I am sure Mallikarjjun ji will be the new president of the Congress,” he said further.
