No Threat To NDA Even If Shiv Sena & Others Form 3rd Front: Ramdas Athawale

Mumbai: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has said that there’s no threat to National Democratic Alliance (NDA) even if Shiv Sena and other parties come together to form an anti-BJP front for 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

He also expressed confidence that the BJP would win the 2024 national elections and the ongoing assembly elections in five states.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who also heads the TRS, met his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai on Sunday and later also met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar.

The meetings were part of efforts to bring together like-minded parties against the BJP at the national level.

Addressing a joint press conference after the two-hour meeting, Rao and Thackeray said the change was the need of the hour.

Speaking to reporters in Pune about this development, Athawale said, “Even though Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao met Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad Pawar, and held talks about forming a third front, there is no threat to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).”

“We are working under the leadership of Narendra Modi and people are happy. Even if Shiv Sena and other parties form a third front, it will not affect us. In 2024, BJP will again come to power. In five states, where elections are currently on, we will win,” he said.

He said that just as the BJP won 282 seats in 2014 and 303 in 2019, the party will get 404 seats in the 2024 elections.

In Punjab also, BJP will come to power, he said. The RPI(A) leader was in Pune to attend various programmes.

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