2024 Lok Sabha election: Several opposition leaders, including Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal, have been touted as challengers to the BJP and Narendra Modi in next year’s poll.
National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday backed Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin to be a joint opposition’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. “Why not? Why can’t he become the PM? What is wrong about it?” he asked reporters when asked about the possibility of a joint challenge to prime minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party.
However, the veteran politician – a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir – also offered a gentle reminder of work be done to defeat the BJP.
“When we all unite and win… it will be at that time that they (a joint opposition) will decide who is the best man to lead and unite this nation.”
Farooq Abdullah is in Chennai for Stalin’s 70th birthday celebrations; the ruling DMK has organised a public meeting to also push for a united opposition.
As the opposition preps for next year, many names have been floated as possible challengers to Modi, including Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Telangana’s K Chandrashekar Rao. Neither is expected to be present today.
Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee was at the centre of a big push after her statement win over the BJP in the 2021 Bengal Assembly election, when she reached out to other parties, including the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, but that buzz has dimmed in recent months.
“When we all unite and win… it will be at that time that they (a joint opposition) will decide who is the best man to lead and unite this nation.”
Farooq Abdullah is in Chennai for Stalin’s 70th birthday celebrations; the ruling DMK has organised a public meeting to also push for a united opposition.
As the opposition preps for next year, many names have been floated as possible challengers to Modi, including Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Telangana’s K Chandrashekar Rao. Neither is expected to be present today.
Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee was at the centre of a big push after her statement win over the BJP in the 2021 Bengal Assembly election, when she reached out to other parties, including the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, but that buzz has dimmed in recent months.