'Not Sure If INDIA Bloc Still Intact': Chidambaram Voices Concern, Calls BJP 'Formidably Organised'

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Last Updated:May 16, 2025, 08:47 IST

P Chidambaram hailed the BJP arsenic a "formidably organised" governmental force, and expressed doubts astir the cohesion of the INDIA bloc, informing that the confederation appears 'frayed'.

Congress Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram during the Monsoon league of the Parliament (PTI/File photo)

Senior Congress person P Chidambaram connected Thursday hailed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), calling it “formidably organised" successful each department. At the aforesaid time, Chidambaram besides voiced concerns astir the INDIA bloc, saying helium was not definite if the absorption confederation was inactive intact.

Speaking astatine the motorboat of Salman Khurshid and Mritunjay Singh Yadav’s publication ‘Contesting Democratic Deficit’, Chidambaram besides said helium felt that the confederation was frayed.

“The aboriginal (of INDIA bloc) is not truthful bright, arsenic Mritunjay Singh Yadav said. He seems to consciousness that the confederation is inactive intact, but I americium not sure," Chidambaram said astatine the event.

“It is lone Salman (Khurshid) who tin answer, due to the fact that helium was a portion of the negotiating squad for the INDIA bloc," helium added.

“If the confederation is wholly intact, I volition beryllium precise happy, but it shows astatine the seams that it is frayed," Chidambaram said, adding that helium hoped that the confederation tin “still beryllium enactment together, there’s inactive time".

The erstwhile Finance Minister besides warned that the INDIA bloc was warring against a “formidable machinery", which indispensable beryllium fought connected each fronts.

“In my acquisition and my speechmaking of history, determination has been nary governmental enactment truthful formidably organised arsenic the BJP. It’s not conscionable different governmental party. It’s a instrumentality down a machine, and the 2 machines power each the machineries successful India.

“From the Election Commission to the lowest constabulary presumption successful the country, they (BJP) are capable to power and sometimes seizure these institutions. It is simply a formidable machinery, arsenic overmuch arsenic tin beryllium allowed successful a democracy," Chidambaram said.

His remarks astatine the publication motorboat came arsenic Khurshid and Yadav, successful their book, bespeak connected the Congress’s revival efforts up of past year’s Lok Sabha elections.

The publication besides recounts however the Opposition parties rallied “to support the thought of an inclusive, pluralistic India".

Chidambaram said that canvass results person shown that nary 1 tin undermine elections successful India, which “still remains an electoral democracy".

“You tin interfere with elections successful India, you tin tinker with them, but you can’t get distant with elections. You can’t person elections wherever the ruling enactment gets distant with 98 per cent of the votes. That is not imaginable successful India," Chidambaram said.

The Congress person added that if the 2029 wide elections instrumentality a decisive crook to fortify the BJP, “we are beyond repair".

“The 2029 elections are captious and indispensable instrumentality america to a full-fledged democracy," helium said.

BJP REACTS

Taking enactment of Chidambaram’s remark, BJP’s nationalist spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari took a jibe astatine the Congress party, saying Rahul Gandhi’s adjacent aides cognize his enactment has nary future.

“Opposition volition not beryllium intact successful future, BJP is simply a formidable organization" Even Rahul Gandhi’s adjacent aides cognize Congress has nary future," Bhandari wrote successful an X post.

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