New Delhi : The Congress’s decimation in the Bihar Assembly election has triggered murmurs about a leadership change in the INDIA opposition bloc. A Samajwadi Party MLA has said that the party’s chief and Kannauj MP Akhilesh Yadav should lead the Opposition alliance and added that the Samajwadi Party is capable of forming a government on its own in Uttar Pradesh, among the most politically significant states of the country.
Ravidas Mehrotra, MLA from Lucknow Central, has said the INDIA alliance would have formed the government in Bihar if the ballot method had been used for conducting the election. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav should lead the India Alliance. Samajwadi Party is capable of forming a government on its own in Uttar Pradesh,” he said. The remarks are significant against the backdrop of the Congress’s rout in the Bihar election.
This, despite Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, and the party’s other top leaders holding several rallies ahead of the polls. The Congress’s ally, RJD, won 25 seats — 50 less than its 2020 score. The NDA posted a massive win in Bihar, winning 202 seats in the 243-member Assembly. The main opposition, which won 99 seats in the Lok Sabha polls last year, has performed poorly in the state polls held since.
Earlier, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee had suggested that party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should lead the INDIA bloc. “In the INDIA alliance, who is the leader? Nobody has been chosen as a leader, as a face of the opposition. Now it has to be done. The Congress has failed; that is established. Congress leaders tried in Haryana, but they failed. In Maharashtra, they failed.
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