Struggling for a tally to form a Government at the Centre by dislodging BJP-led NDA claims, the Congress led INDIA Bloc on Wednesday welcomed all parties that share a fundamental commitment to the values enshrined in the Preamble of Constitution towards formation of a government.
Indicating for an “appropriate time”, the INDIA Bloc in a statement said it will continue to fight against the fascist rule of the BJP-led by Narendra Modi.
“We will take appropriate steps at the appropriate time to realise the people's desire not to be ruled by the BJP Govt. This is our decision that whatever promises we have made to the people, we will keep it up,” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said while addressing the Opposition leaders who converged at his residence for the first meeting of the Bloc after its impressive gains in Lok Sabha that pulled down the ruling BJPs mark below the majority figure of 273 of the 543 members of Lok Sabha.
"The mandate is decisively against Modi, against him and the substance and style of his politics. It is a huge political loss for him personally apart from being a clear moral defeat as well. However, he is determined to subvert the will of the people," he said.
"The INDIA alliance welcomes all parties which share its fundamental commitment to the values enshrined in the Preamble to our Constitution and to its many provisions for economic, social and political justice," the Congress chief said in his opening remarks.
Thanking the INDIA Bloc partners, he said, "I welcome all INDIA alliance partners. We fought well, fought unitedly, fought resolutely.”
The constituents of the INDIA Bloc thanked the people of India for the overwhelming support received by our alliance.
The people’s mandate has given a befitting reply to the BJP and their politics of hate, corruption and deprivation, said a resolution.
This is a mandate in defence of the Constitution of India and against price rise, unemployment, and crony capitalism and also to save democracy, it further added.
Those present in the meeting were Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, NCP’s Sharad Pawar NCP, Supriya Sule, DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and his party colleague R Balu, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav, SP’s Ramgopal Yadav, TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, Sanjay Raut and Arvind Sawant from Shiv Sena (UBT), RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, CPIM’s Sitaram Yechury CPI(M), D Raja from CPI
JMM leader and Jharkhand CM Champai Soren, jailed JMM leader Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren, Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha from AAP and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah amongst other constituents of the INDIA Bloc.
