Shashi Tharoor on Friday attributed AISA chief Neha Bora’s joining the INDIA bloc protest march against alleged election irregularities to the Congress’ ‘moderate’ credentials.
“It’s about acceptance,” he said at the NDTV World Summit.
The Congress MP also described the Left’s cooperation with the party on several issues as a prime example of Opposition unity.
The Congress MP also described the Left’s cooperation with the party on several issues as an example of Opposition unity. Bora, the chief of the Left-leaning student group, has become the face of the agitation against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in the national capital. Her social media reels, in which she often criticises the central government, garner millions of views. “Of course these parties have their value, but Neha Bora wasn’t campaigning against us. I like her, I like her. She’s brought a lot of energy, colour, and life into the protest, the movement. But it’s about the Congress being a moderate party and about acceptance. Why does the Congress need the Left? How was it overthrown? Through opposition, where the friends of the RSS and the BJP were merging with socialists and leftists and people from the Left as well. They were all united in order to defeat the government that had declared the Emergency. That’s recent Indian political history, just half a century ago. Why shouldn’t we make common cause with parties we disagree with? We don’t agree with the Left on economics; we don’t agree with the Left on Kerala politics, but we agree with the Left on some of the undemocratic methods being followed in Delhi that we believe need to be resisted. We’re resisting them together,” he added.
“Look at 1977…Prime Minister Narendra Modi does keep talking about the Emergency and how the Emergency was overthrown.
Tharoor said she brought energy, colours and life to the agitation. It’s opposition unity,” he said. “I don’t know how long the Congress will continue to put the country at stake for the launch of its failed product. (The Satish Dhawan Space Centre at) Sriharikota does not see as many launches as the Congress tries, unsuccessfully, to launch its leader in a year,” he said.
She participated in the INDIA bloc’s protest march earlier this month and was seen walking beside Congress top brass, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
