‘Parties should join hands to defeat BJP’

Mumbai: The need for the formation of a secular front in Maharashtra, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha and assembly elections, was underlined by a range of anti BJP political leaders in Mumbai on Wednesday. An organisation named ‘Friends of Democracy’ invited the leaders of the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and other like-minded parties in a conference ‘Consent to Conversation 2019’.  In the programme, the leaders of different parties shared the dais and exchanged the idea of coming together.

Talking in the conference CPM leader Ajit Abhyankar appealed all political leaders to create alternative economical model of development before election. “We need to mobilise the anger in public as well as need to present our economic model before people. Modi government has failed to give comprehensive economic model to nation. So people are waiting to hear our thoughts on the issue now,” said Mr Abhyankar.

Calling Congress and NCP leaders as route cause of rise of BJP, Member of Parliament Raju Shetti asked them to come with concrete plan of welfare of marginalised people in the society. “Why we had gone with BJP? Because of you people misruled the state. So, accept the mistakes and come clean before people,” said Mr Shetti.

Addressing the conference NCP leader Jayant Patil asked parties to bury their differences over larger goal. “We need to save the democracy first. This government is attacking the Indian Constitution. I request all parties to keep their differences aside and join hands to defeat BJP,” appealed Mr Patil.