Bid To Form Opposition Front Without Congress Will Help BJP: Nana Patole

Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Wednesday said any attempt to form an “anti-BJP front” without his party would indirectly help the BJP.

Speaking to reporters at Faizpur in Jalgaon district, he also said that elections were three years away and COVID-19 management was his party’s priority.

Amid speculations of forming an anti-BJP front, Patole said such a front is not possible without Congress.

“Any attempt to do so will indirectly help the BJP,” he said.

In 2019, Congress formed an alliance with Shiv Sena and NCP to form a government in Maharashtra under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray.

All India Congress Committee’s Maharashtra in-charge HK Patil recently asked the party’s state unit to focus on strengthening the organization and leave it to the party high command to decide whether to go it alone or in future elections.

Patole on Wednesday said the welfare of farmers and youth facing the “unemployment crisis” is the priority of Congress.

“I have already spoken about elections and the message has reached the party workers. Elections are three years away and I will not speak on it. We will highlight misdeeds of the Narendra Modi government in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and the neglect of farmers,” he said.

Patole said, “Today we symbolically buried three (controversial) farm laws of the Centre. A Congress meeting in Faizpur led by (former prime minister) Jawaharlal Nehru and other senior leaders of the freedom movement had deliberated on how farmers’ policies should be framed, and the need of the hour is the revisit that.”

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