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While interacting with the students and faculty members on the elections in India, the Congress leader said, “This (Indian) election was a long election… seven phases long. Indian elections are a phenomenal exercise. It’s the largest planned human exercise on earth.”
“It (the results) was not a mandate for any political party to form a government. It’s a coalition. It was a coalition of parties which has now formed a new government. Something has shifted. For the last 10 years, we had a government that was doing a lot of propaganda, marketing, using the media but the reality on the ground was different in terms of job creation, a big gap in rich and poor,” he added.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Pilot talks on the responsible role of the opposition and the Congress party’s manifesto, that widely focused on socio-economic development.
“The Congress party’s manifesto addressed issues which were widely affecting socio-economic development. The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ led by Rahul Gandhi ji connected with the masses. Congress party and its alliance partners will play a responsible role of opposition both within the parliament and outside,” he wrote on X.