Nitish Kumar says BJP will lose badly in 2024, if opposition unite

Bihar chief minister and JDU chief  on Sunday predicted that the BJP will lose the next Lok Sabha elections very badly. His comments came just two days after Amit Shah - at his first rally in Bihar after the fallout with the JD(U) - said that Kumar had backstabbed his party. Nitish Kumar also said that he did not want to be the chief minister after the last assembly elections in Bihar. In the last assembly polls, the BJP ensured defeat of my party's candidates and even though I did not want to become the chief minister after the mandate, BJP leaders asked me to lead the government, he said. Addressing an INLD rally to mark former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal's birth anniversary in Haryana, Nitish Kumar called for uniting all opposition parties, including the Congress and the Left, to take on the BJP. He said this "main front of opposition" will ensure that the saffron party loses badly in the 2024 general elections.

If all non-BJP parties unite, then they can get rid of those who are working to destroy the country, Kumar said, adding that there is no fight between Hindus and Muslims and accused the BJP of trying to create disturbances. In a show of strength for the third front in the run up to 2024 Lok Sabha elections. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said the INLD and SAD are real brothers, adding the rights of farmers' can be saved by the leaders present at the rally, as he called all the parties to unite to uproot the BJP.Indian National Lok Dal of Haryana has invited a galaxy of opposition leaders to its 'Devi Lal Saman rally'. Several top opposition leaders, including NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal, congregated for a grand rally of the INLD organised in Haryana's Fatehabad.