New Delhi: On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not coming back to power and the Congress is winning the Lok Sabha polls, party chief Rahul Gandhi claimed. Gandhi told in an interview "Well, what is pretty clear is we are winning the elections. We are doing better, if you look at the numbers coming from the first four phases, the BJP is not winning the elections. That is pretty clear. It is clear as that at least our data for four stages is showing that Narendra Modi and the BJP are not coming back,".
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Here it is to be noted that Rahul Gandhi Targets PM Narendra Modi on Unemployment, Says 'Chowkidar Has Not Given Employment To a Single Youth'. On his chances of becoming the next PM, he said it was for the people to decide. He added that "It is up to the people of this country. No, it is not my place to say, you know, (that) I want to be a Prime Minister or I do not want to be the Prime Minister. It is a decision of the people of India and I respect the people of India.”
He said "My philosophy is very different. I don't stand on a stage and say 'mere aane se pehle haathi so raha tha'. I have 100 percent faith in the wisdom of the people of this country. I believe in the wisdom of this country. Whatever the people choose I am subservient to that,". Claiming that in Uttar Pradesh, "a secular formation was going to win whether it is BSP, SP, or Congress", he denied that his party was dividing the anti-BJP votes in the crucial state which sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha. He said "Wherever we don't have a strong candidate, we are giving help to the BSP-SP (which are fighting in alliance). We're saying okay, we're going to harm the BJP. Where we have solid candidates, we are fighting for our space,".
However it is worth mention here that Gandhi said he had told Congress General Secretaries Priyanka Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia, who are in charge of eastern and western UP respectively, that "our primary aim is to defeat the BJP, so in places where we are not going to win, we'll help the (SP-BSP) gathbandan". In UP, Congress was a threat to BSP chief Mayawati and SP President Akhilesh Yadav, he said but noted that he respected the two state leaders. "As far as I am concerned I am extremely respectful of Mayawati ji and Akhilesh Yadav ji. And I understand that there is a secular formation that is operating in the UP and it is going to crush the BJP," he said, adding that "the SP-BSP, for strategic reasons, felt they don't have to ally with the Congress".
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Articulating his long-term position in UP, he said he had asked Priyanka Gandhi and Scindia to build the party for the next assembly polls. Gandhi also refuted the charge that the Congress had no national poll alliances saying the party had pacts in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir and had a clear commitment to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who suddenly brought up Haryana and Punjab into the game.