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BJP responds to P Chidambaram's remark on INDIA bloc: 'Congress too has no future'
May-16-2025

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders took a swipe at the Congress its leader P Chidambaram's remark on the opposition INDIA alliance, saying even Rahul Gandhi's ‘close aide’ knows that the party has no future. The development comes after Congress leader P Chidambaram described the BJP as a ‘formidable machinery’ and raised doubts about the future of the INDIA alliance at an event in New Delhi.

Strongly criticizing P Chidambaram's remarks, BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said, ‘Congress Leader P Chidambaram predicts: 'Opposition will not be intact in future, BJP is a formidable organisation'. ‘Even Rahul Gandhi's close aides know Congress has no future,’ Bhandari added.

Speaking at the launch of Salman Khurshid and Mritunjay Singh Yadav's book ‘Contesting Democratic Deficit’, Chidambaram said, ‘The future (of INDIA bloc) is not so bright, as Mritunjay Singh Yadav said. He seems to feel that the alliance is still intact, but I am not sure’. He said, ’If the alliance is totally intact, I will be very happy. But it shows at the seams that it is frayed,’ Chidambaram also hoped that the alliance can ‘still be put together, there's still time’.

The Rajya Sabha MP warned that the INDIA bloc was fighting against a ‘formidable machinery’, which must be fought on all fronts. He said, ‘In my experience and my reading of history, there has been no political party so formidably organised as the BJP. It's not just another political party. It's a machine behind a machine and the two machines control all the machineries in India’.

The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) of opposition parties came together ahead of the last Lok Sabha elections to counter the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance at the Centre. Chidamabaram's warning comes months before Assembly elections will be held in Bihar. 


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