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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. (Data map)
Tharoor also expressed confidence that political parties that have not yet joined the opposition alliance will join the opposition alliance after the Lok Sabha election results are announced
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday seemed willing to accept the view in certain chapters that smaller parties could merge into the big old party.
“As far as smaller parties are in alliance or merging with the Congress, I feel if the ideology is the same, then what is the need to separate? Let’s see what happens,” Tharoor told a press conference in Mumbai.
Notably, veteran politician Sharad Pawar has predicted that some regional parties will get closer to the Congress and even merge in the coming years.
He spoke about the future political landscape in an interview with The Indian Express. Tharoor termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray as “meaningless”, asking them to join Ajit Pawar and Eknath respectively. Cinder’s ranks.
He also expressed confidence that political parties that have not yet joined the opposition alliance will join after the Lok Sabha election results are announced.
Modi, while addressing a poll campaign rally on Friday, suggested that Pawar-led National Communist Party (SP) and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) join forces with Deputy Chief Minister Ajit · Pawar joined hands with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde rather than die by merging with UP. Shinde and Ajit Pawar split their respective parties in 2022 and 2023.
Sharad Pawar immediately hit back at the Prime Minister, saying that he would not ally with those who did not believe in parliamentary democracy, which was under threat due to Modi.
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