Will the Third Front challenge the BJP in 2024? Sanjay Raut names possible leaders for big war

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday named NCP chief Sharad Pawar and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as potential leaders for the 2024 general elections, indicating the possibility of formation of a Third Front. However, he said bringing together all opposition parties to build a one-face consensus to take on the BJP would be a “huge task”, as each regional party considers itself king and “set the conditions”. tries to.

Asked who could emerge as a possible face to take on the BJP, Raut said, “Sharad Pawar has been a national leader for a long time.

Few people think of Mamata Banerjee after her stellar performance in the recent West Bengal elections. So if (election strategist) Prashant Kishor can do some magic then I will be happy.

Kishor had separately met Banerjee and Pawar in the recent past. Kishor met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at his residence in Delhi on Tuesday. Raut said that he has a good relationship with Kishor and his meeting with the Congress leadership is completely his own business.

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“Bringing together all the opposition parties and building a consensus to take on the BJP in the 2024 general elections is a huge task.
Every opposition party considers itself like a king and tries to fix the conditions,” he told a regional news channel in Delhi.

Further, Raut said the front would need a face to counter the central government like Jayaprakash Narayan against the then PM Indira Gandhi, VP Singh against Rajiv Gandhi in the post-Emergency elections. “Later the pair of (then prime minister) Manmohan Singh and (Congress president) Sonia Gandhi were challenged by Narendra Modi in the 2014 general elections,” he said.

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