Kolkata:
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday asserted that the presence of opposition leaders on the consecration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya may have relegated them to a supporting position in a programme which, he claimed, belonged to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Supporting the Congress management’s determination to skip the January 22 occasion, Mr Tharoor expressed willingness to go to the temple after the final elections are over when all of the political deal with the shrine dies down.
”The Congress’ place could be very very clear. The Congress celebration members are free to have their very own faith and non secular beliefs, and everybody’s faith is revered by the celebration. So I am going to temples to hope, and to not political occasions,” the Thiruvananthapuram MP stated.
”This explicit occasion (consecration of Ram temple) was primarily going to relegate the opposition invitees to a type of supporting position for a first-rate ministerial starring spectacle. I didn’t suppose that Congress wanted to play such a supporting position,” he instructed reporters.
Senior Congress leaders together with celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge, former chief Sonia Gandhi and Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have ’respectfully declined’ the Ram Temple consecration ceremony invite.
Mr Tharoor additional emphasised that individuals ought to perceive that the BJP has no monopoly on both Lord Ram or any of the Hindu deities.
“However I’m fairly positive that numerous Congress folks will go exterior the political context. I, myself, would like to go and see the temple (at Ayodhya) however I might do it solely after the elections, after all of the political focus dies down. We don’t need to be a part of BJP’s political train,” he instructed reporters.
Unwilling to take questions on the continued seat-sharing fiasco between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress, Mr Tharoor stated that the matter is being sorted by the management of his celebration.
”This complete alliance or seat-sharing is being mentioned on a state-by-state foundation. Nobody goes to have a one-side fix-all answer,” he stated.
Mr Tharoor additionally dodged a query on whether or not the Congress is seeking to survive in West Bengal with the help of the TMC.
He stated, ”We’re all targeted on the crucial want of adjusting the Union authorities. The federal government of Mr Modi and the BJP in New Delhi will must be modified and that’s the final goal of all of us,” he stated.
On the opportunity of Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar becoming a member of fingers with the BJP forward of the Lok Sabha elections, Tharoor stated, “I’m following this within the media. This isn’t in my space of duty. When such a improvement happens, you’ll hear it from the celebration.”
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