SP MP Ram Gopal Yadav: ‘If Modi remains in power, the only reason is the Congress’

Nobody believes the government. The radical who witnessed the stampede besides deliberation it is simply a lie. The authorities has not yet released immoderate figures. Thousands of radical person approached the lost-and-found antagonistic and immoderate radical connected to my household accidental astir 15,000 radical are moving from pillar to station to find their adjacent and beloved ones.

With the figures that (Leader of the Opposition successful the Rajya Sabha) Mallikarjun Kharge saab provided successful the House, it is imaginable that the toll is adjacent higher. The authorities made gangly claims but could not negociate the situation.

What were these gangly claims?

Firstly, they changed the sanction of the Kumbh. There is nary notation of Maha Kumbh successful spiritual scriptures. Kumbh took spot each 12 years and Ardh Kumbh each six years. For ages, radical person been flocking to Kumbh Melas without immoderate invitation arsenic it is simply a substance of religion and belief. But this time, the authorities spent crores connected advertisements. Nobody had heard of Amrit Snan before. Nobody had heard of Maha Kumbh before. So overmuch truthful that 1 ‘sarkari sadhu’ said those who don’t marque it to the Maha Kumbh are anti-nationals.

When you speech similar this, you should person made arrangements to negociate the crowd. When you invitation someone, it is your work to guarantee the information of that person. If the Chief Minister wanted to play host, past it was his work to guarantee that radical didn’t look immoderate hardships.

The SP-Congress harvester performed amended than expected successful past year’s Lok Sabha polls. But the BJP bounced backmost successful the consequent bypolls successful UP. How are you seeing the Milkipur bypoll?

The BJP did not marque a comeback. They did not let radical to vote. Could the BJP person ever won a (Muslim-dominated) spot similar Kundarki? Similarly, successful Milkipur, they person started elector suppression. Yadavs and Muslims are not being fixed elector slips. Akhilesh Yadav was not allowed to clasp a rally, incorrect coordinates were provided to his helicopter.

What is the presumption of the INDIA bloc? Top leaders of the conjugation person not met since the Lok Sabha elections …

It had been decided during the Lok Sabha elections that successful each authorities INDIA partners would enactment the enactment champion placed to decision the BJP. For instance, we are supporting the AAP successful Delhi but that does not mean we are against the Congress.

In Haryana, the Congress seemed to beryllium successful a presumption to decision the BJP but wherefore did nary of the INDIA bloc parties openly enactment it similar they person backed the AAP successful Delhi?

The AAP sought 5 seats from the Congress successful Haryana and we were told we would beryllium fixed one. While they agreed upon the seat, that precise evening they fielded Vinesh Phogat. What tin we bash if the Congress does not larn its lessons? Had determination been a associated Akhilesh-Rahul campaign, they would person won 20 seats but ended up with conscionable six.

Do you deliberation the Opposition has mislaid its momentum aft reducing the BJP to 240 seats successful the Lok Sabha polls?

What tin I say? Congress ki arrogance nahi hoti, toh desh ki yeh stithi thodi hoti (had the Congress not been arrogant, would the country’s information person been however it is now)?

In Bihar, Tejashwi (Prasad Yadav) would person go CM successful 2020 itself but they (Congress) did not agree. They fought 70 seats and won conscionable 19 portion the RJD and different confederation partners had a onslaught complaint of 53-54%. Had Tejashwi been CM, the Opposition would person won 30 Lok Sabha seats successful Bihar and Modi would not person go PM. They bash not understand, I wonderment who their advisors are.

We each privation the Congress to triumph seats successful states wherever they are beardown … In Himachal Pradesh, they are successful authorities but they got zero seats. In Chhattisgarh, wherever they were successful power, they got nothing. Despite being successful powerfulness successful Telangana and Karnataka, the BJP performed amended than them. Toh jo Modiji chapeau nahin paaye, uske karan sirf Congress hai (The Congress is the lone crushed wherefore Modi ji has not been defeated). Every different (INDIA bloc) enactment but the RJD performed well.

What should the Congress bash arsenic the largest Opposition party?

The elder successful the location has much responsibility. But they don’t adjacent talk. During the Haryana elections, I asked Akhilesh if we got immoderate seats. He said, ‘They are not adjacent talking.’ If they involvement assertion to signifier the authorities tomorrow, they cannot bash without america but they bash not speech to the person of a enactment that has 37 MPs.

In UP, they person thing but we gave them seats arsenic we did not privation them to allege we bash not privation to decision the BJP. They volition not beryllium capable to unfastened their relationship successful the Assembly polls if we bash not enactment them.

In Delhi, wherever they bash not person adjacent a azygous seat, they should person spoken to the AAP and asked for 8 to 10 seats. What are they doing now? Things that the BJP is not saying astir Kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi is. It sends the incorrect connection that the BJP and Congress talk the aforesaid language. If the BJP wins Delhi, the coming times volition amusement however it adversely affects the Opposition.

What volition you accidental if the Congress approaches you for spot sharing for the 2027 UP Assembly polls?

If we deliberation their campaigner tin win, we volition springiness them the seat.

Is determination nary existing seat-sharing look based connected what the Congress won successful the Lok Sabha polls?

What formula? They did not adjacent person candidates successful immoderate seats.

There is simply a request for West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress main Mamata Banerjee to beryllium made the person of the INDIA bloc. Will the enactment beryllium decided aft the Delhi polls?

We person not got the occurrence we expected nether the Congress’s leadership. In specified a situation, those who person consistently performed amended are from the southbound (DMK) and Mamata. In my view, the concern whitethorn amended if she is made the leader.

Will the Congress agree?

That is the problem. They bash not see what is astatine stake.