Congress Believes In Democracy, Unaffected By Defeat Or Victory: Mallikarjun Kharge

Mumbai: After electoral defeats in five states in the recently concluded assembly elections, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said Congress believes in democracy and is not affected by defeat or victory.

Kharge said, “In a democracy, political parties become weak and strong. Congress is not affected by victory or defeat. It does not indulge in vote bank politics and does not abandon the core ideology of the party.”

He was responding to a question of whether the party, for the first time in the history of the Congress, is facing an existential challenge with the rise of the Modi-Shah leadership.

He further said that BJP is a “dictatorial party” and democracy cannot be protected by autocratic ideology.

“The BJP was once a party with only two MPs. The BJP is now a dictatorial party,” he added.

Kharge said the BJP resorted to politics of polarization to move forward, including launching a campaign for the demolition of the Babri Masjid, while Congress cannot give up its core ideology.

“For the establishment of democracy, former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru formed the government in the country by taking opposition leaders as well as nonideological people along. That’s why the party wants to take everyone along to keep democracy alive. But what the present BJP government and the Sangh are doing is not in the interest of the country,” he added.

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