At a meeting held at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence, leaders of the INDIA Alliance , met to take stock of the opposition’s preparations leading up to the June 4 counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha elections, and claimed they will get more than 295 seats, enough for them to form the next government.
According to PTI, Addressing the media after two-and-a-half-hour confabulations at his residence, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the INDIA bloc has arrived at the 295-plus figure after feedback from people, which he termed ‘people’s survey’.
He said the leaders of the alliance dwelt on a host of issues, including the precautions to be taken on the counting day on June 4 .
He said they have instructed their party workers to not leave the counting halls till all formalities are completed.
He said the opposition parties have sought time from the Election Commission to raise their concerns and urge the poll body to address them soon.
“The INDIA bloc will get more than 295 seats. We have arrived at this figure after speaking with all our leaders,” Kharge told reporters.
“This is a survey of people. People have given this information to our leaders. The government surveys are there and their media friends also inflate figures and put it out. Therefore, we want to tell you about the reality.”
Some opposition leaders said the BJP would be happy Saturday evening, when exit poll results are released, while they would be happy on June 4, when the official results will be declared.
Targeting the BJP, Kharge said, “They are trying to give a narrative through government exit polls and we want to tell the people the truth.”
Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, K C Venugopal and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were also present at the meeting.
The Samajwadi Party, the Communist Party of India-Marxist, the Communist Party of India, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar were also represented at the meeting.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh in charge of Communications told ANI, Jairam Ramesh says, “The outgoing PM, the person who will have to leave for sure on June 4 has conspired all these things and have managed the exit polls. There will be a huge difference in exit polls and results of June 4. INDIA alliance had a meeting yesterday, we did detail discussions on numbers, it’s impossible that INDIA alliance will get anything below 295… ”
