Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday took a jibe at his former party Congress, claiming that if Shashi Tharoor had won the party president’s election, he would have believed that democracy had arrived in the Congress. He also expressed hope that Congress workers who voted for Tharoor would eventually join the BJP.
“The results of the so-called internal elections of the Congress were known and announced even before the votes were counted. The only democratic people in the Congress were the 1,000 delegates who showed courage to vote for Shashi Tharoor. I hope he joins the BJP. Soon Yes,” Sarma said while talking to news agency ANI.
The comment evoked a response from Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who said only those who do not have the courage to fight the BJP would be tempted to join it.
“Those who show courage will never join” BJP“Those who do not have the courage to fight may be tempted to do so,” Tharoor was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Sarma rejected the notion that the BJP is not democratic or does not hold elections within the party and insisted that the BJP president is appointed through a democratic process and is not remotely controlled . He said that by 2024, BJP will expand to two-three states and the expansion will continue, “By 2029, you will see BJP everywhere in the country,” said the Assam CM while speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit (HTLS). ,
In the congressional presidential elections, which were held in October, Mallikarjun Kharge Of the valid votes, 7,897 (84.14 per cent) were polled, while his rival Shashi Tharoor got 1,072 (11.4 per cent). Kharge took over as the first non-Gandhi chief of the Congress party in two-and-a-half decades, but while political pundits claim that he was supported by the Gandhi family during the election, the real decisions would still come from the Gandhi family.
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