Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday said the Himachal Pradesh elections are the gateway for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and that the Congress will win with a two-third majority in the hill state.
Baghel, The Congress in-charge of the Himachal Pradesh polls, told the media tha the BJP was facing rebellion within as 21 party rebels were in election fray.
Even after being the home state of BJP President J P Nadda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was directly interacting with the rebels. This shows that their strategy has failed, he said.
On the Chhattisgarh model, he said the state has waived off the loans of farmers and also reinstated the old pension scheme. These will be implemented in Himachal Pradesh.
The employees have the right to withdraw 80-90 percent of the funds. Once it is withdrawn, the funds can be used to form a corpus fund. The Centre can delay it but cannot withhold it for long.
Inflation and unemployment are key issues in the polls, and the BJP has failed on both front besides failing to double the income of farmers, he said. Also, the ‘Agnivver’ scheme has put a spanner on thousands of youths from Himachal, he said. On Rahul Gandhi's absence from the election campaign, Baghel said he has already covered 1,500 km on foot.