Wish ‘Bharat Jodo’ each success but cannot encourage concluding occasion: JD(U) president

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge got a letter from occasion ally JDU’s nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan alias Lalan Singh on Thursday, expressing his incapacity to encourage Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra’s finale in Srinagar on January 30.

While citing his commitment to campaign for the JDU in Nagaland that day, Singh furthermore conveyed Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s “best needs” for the yatra, thus making it certain that Kumar too is presumably no longer attending the Srinagar feature.

“Mighty as I’d wish to most modern at the historic occasion I be apologetic about my incapacity to discontinuance so as I wish to be most modern at the launching of the occasion’s election campaign at Wokha in Nagaland the a linked day… As president of the Janata Dal (United) I, on behalf of my occasion, the occasion’s supreme leader Nitish Kumar, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Bihar, and crores of participants of the occasion, wish the occasion each success,” Singh mentioned in acknowledge to Kharge’s invitation for the Srinagar occasion.

Within the period in-between, some JDU functionaries mentioned Kumar is busy alongside with his hang yatra in Bihar.

The Congress circles are disenchanted and intrigued by the JDU management fending off the Srinagar feature and no longer even deputing a occasion nominee to encourage it, despite the Congress being a coalition partner in the Nitish Kumar-led executive. Some Congress leaders identified that their occasion had remained “fair” even when the JD (U) and the RJD currently differed or indulged in verbal spats on some concerns.

Even while expressing the JD (U)’s incapacity to settle for the Congress invitation, Singh’s letter supported the Bharat Jodo Yatra and confused out on opposition unity. “I clearly factor in the Bharat Jodo Yatra has furthermore given a possibility to explore, experience and sense the mood and anxieties of the oldsters first hand, which I am clear will slide a good plot in helping us formulate joint strategies in the bound-as a lot as the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. My occasion sincerely feels that the need of the hour is a united opposition and expects that Indian National Congress takes acceptable steps in this direction,” Singh mentioned in the letter while sharing concerns Kharge expressed in his invitation letter over “assaults” on constitutional institutions and about stressing on concerns akin to declining democratic values and about the need for opposition unity.

The assorted Bihar ally, RJD, has to this level stored the Congress guessing about accepting its invitation, at the same time as it hopes Lalu Prasad’s occasion will no longer slide the JDU plot.

Kharge had invited leaders of about 22 opposition parties to encourage the Srinagar feature.

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