Mumbai: As a counter to BJP’s policies, the Congress party will come out with its own social and economic narrative as part of its determined effort to wrest power in next year’s Lok Sabha polls.
While revealing this, Congress leader Milind Deora said his party will also need to stitch together an alliance that will not only help it win the elections but work on a long-term basis too.
The 41-year-old former Union minister and a close confidante of Congress president Rahul Gandhi criticised the four-year rule of the Narendra Modi government, saying it has failed on multiple counts, like the economic front, the social front as well as in the foreign policy arena. At the same time, he said that simply attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his policies was “not enough”.
“We have to tell the people that if you are upset and if you are disappointed and feel let down by the policies of last four years (of the Modi government), why you should vote for us,” he told PTI here. “We have to come up with a counter-narrative to the BJP and Narendra Modi,” said the young leader. Socially it is clear what we stand for.
Economically, it is very critical that we come with a blueprint of what is our agenda of going forward and that is something which is happening,” added Deora, who represented South Mumbai constituency in the last Lok Sabha.