NEW DELHI: Congress will get extra seats on this election than within the 2019 election, occasion’s senior chief P Chidambaram stated on Saturday. Exuding confidence in Congress, Chidambaram predicted that the INDIA bloc will report a convincing victory in Tamil Nadu, two fronts (UDF and LDF) will share the 20 seats in Kerala, could have an encouraging efficiency in Haryana, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi and the BJP will get nothing. In an interview with PTI, Chidambaram stated, “I cannot speak for all the states. I can confidently predict that the INDIA bloc will record a resounding victory in Tamil Nadu. In Kerala, the two fronts (UDF and LDF) will share the 20 seats, leaving nothing to the BJP. In Karnataka and Telangana, the Congress governments are popular and Congress will get many more seats than in 2019.”The Congress had received 52 seats within the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.He additionally stated that West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee is “undoubtedly” a key participant in Lok Sabha polls and stated that her skill to carry the fort within the state will strengthen the INDIA bloc. The Congress chief accused BJP of doing calculated technique to color the complete Opposition as anti-Hindu and to spice up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s credentials because the saviour of Hindus. “This is the BJP’s calculated strategy to paint the entire Opposition as anti-Hindu and to boost PM Narendra Modi’s credentials as the saviour of Hindus. Hinduism is not in danger. Narendra Modi is asking Hindus to imagine fears that do not exist. ‘Appeasement’ is the BJP’s code word for its anti-minority stand,” he stated.Speaking up in regards to the Kachchatheevu challenge, the Congress Rajya Sabha MP stated that this was the “closed” matter and questioned the BJP’s timing of elevating the difficulty when the elections had been round.”Modi and his ministers know that they will gravely harm the interests of the millions of Tamil-speaking people living in Sri Lanka if they create a situation of confrontation between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamils or between the Sinhalese and Tamils, yet they raise a closed issue for obvious political and electoral reasons, which is sad and condemnable”, claimed the Congress Rajya Sabha MP.Questioning the BJP’s timing in raking up the difficulty, Chidambaram stated the saffron occasion has raised it for “obvious political and electoral reasons” and to divert individuals’s consideration from “Chinese troops occupying Indian territory”.”Katchatheevu is a closed issue. The agreement was reached 50 years ago. Modi has been in office since 2014; why did he not raise the issue in the last 10 years?” questioned the previous Union minister.”It is being raised now in the light of the fact that Chinese troops are occupying Indian territory, several of our patrol points have been barred, and the Chinese are fortifying the border to their advantage,” he stated.The Kachchatheevu challenge pertains to decades-old territorial and fishing rights dispute across the island positioned between Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It gained prominence forward of the Lok Sabha polls as each BJP and Opposition events are engaged in a disagreement over the difficulty.
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