KALABURAGI: AICC will allow the local units of PCCs to have a seat-sharing alliance with I. N. D. I. A. partners and to discuss with those parties on how many seats should be shared with them in the ensuing Assembly Elections to 5 States, said AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge here on Wednesday.
Addressing journalists, Kharge denied that a rift has arisen between the Congress Party and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh with regard to the sharing of seats in Assembly Elections. The AICC President said that let SP President Akhilesh Yadav tell in how many seats his party had won in the previous Assembly Elections and on what basis he is asking for more seats.
Kharge said that the anti-incumbency wave is clearly visible in all the States ruled by the BJP where elections are due. People are fed up with the false promises given by the BJP. None of the promises given in the previous elections were fulfilled by BJP, he blamed. The AICC President expressed his confidence that the Congress Party would win in all 5 States and would form the government.
When asked whether the elections to the Assembly Elections to the 5 States are an indication of the mood of the voters about the ruling party, Kharge said that the issues would be different for different States and the issues for the Assembly Elections are different and for the Lok Sabha Elections are different.
He blamed the BJP for using its officers including those working in the ministries to canvass the programmes in the elections, let BJP use its Party workers and leaders for election purposes, but it is completely wrong to use the officers. The public is watching everything, he said.
On the charges of opposition parties that the Congress Party is using Karnataka as an ATM for funding to the elections of 5 States, the AICC President said that the Congress Party came to power in Karnataka just a few months ago. How can it become an ATM to fund elections to 5 States, where is the revenue, he questioned. Union government is using all its agencies like Ed, IT, CBI etc to threaten the leaders of non-Congress Party, he blamed.
Regarding Karnataka, Kharge said that the BJP is levelling false charges against the ministers of the Congress Party in Karnataka just to defame them as well as to the Congress Party to get political gains. People were watching everything, he said.
Minister for Medical Education Dr. Sharanaprakash Patil and Minister for forest and Ecology Eshwar Khandre were present.
