Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday said that Rahul Gandhi should be the prime ministerial face in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections representing the opposition INDIA alliance.
The statement comes ahead of INDIA's meeting in Mumbai later this month.
Talking to the media in New Delhi, Baghel said the BJP feared the popularity of Rahul Gandhi after his Bharat Jodo Yatra. That is why it got him disqualified from the Lok Sabha and even took away his official residence. Baghel replied in the affirmative when he was asked if he wanted Gandhi to be the face of the INDIA alliance in 2024. Baghel said the main aim of the INDIA bloc is to oust the "dictatorial people from power" and asserted that any differences among its constituent parties will be resolved through talks.
More than two dozen opposition parties have formed the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) to take on the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls. On what role he sees for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Baghel said: "We would like to see her in Parliament. She is our star campaigner."