Need of hour is one front of all opposition parties including Congress, Left: Nitish Kumar at INLD rally

NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday called for the opposition unity and said that all parties must join hands to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
He said that all the opposition parties, including the Congress and the Left to unite to take on the BJP adding that this "main front of opposition" will ensure saffron party's defeat.
Bihar CM was addressing at the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) rally in Fatehabad district on the birth anniversary of INLD founder late Chaudhary Devi Lal by INLD leader OP Chautala.
Opposition leaders like NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal, Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav joined the call for like-minded parties to form a united front.
Here's who said what at the INLD rally:
Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar said that he is not a PM candidate and there's no question of a Third Front.
If all non-BJP parties unite, then they can get rid of those who are working to destroy the country, Kumar said.
"My only wish is that we all need to come together at the national level... We need to bring together more parties," he said.
"There is no fight between Hindus and Muslims; they (BJP) want to create disturbances," he added.

Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav said that the JD(U), SAD and the Shiv Sena left the BJP-led NDA to save the Constitution and democracy.
With Nitish Kumar, Sukhbir Singh Badal and Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant on stage, he noted that they were all members of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
They have left the ruling alliance to save the Constitution and democracy, he claimed. Where is the NDA now, he asked.
Sukhbir Singh Badal
Sukhbir Singh Badal while speaking at the rally said that his party along with the Shiv Sena and the JD(U) are the ''real NDA'' as they had founded the alliance.
He said it is the time for "all like-minded parties to unite under the flag of farmers and labourers and work for their welfare".
Talking about NDA, Badal said the alliance was formed when BJP was relatively a weaker force.
"The real NDA is sitting here, it was founded by Shiv Sena, Akali Dal and JD(U). We stood by BJP when it was a relatively smaller party. But now it is time to forge an alliance for farmers and labourers," Badal said.
Sharad Pawar
National Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar too resonated with the ideas of other leaders and said the time has come for everyone to work towards ensuring change of government in 2024.
Pawar criticised the BJP government and said that it didn't heed to the demands of the farmers protesting on the Delhi borders for a very long time.
The government promised to withdraw cases filed against the farmer leaders but has not fulfilled it, he added.