Kochi: Former Union Minister P Chidambaram’s controversial remarks over the future of the bloc led by his party has put the party in a soup, media reports said.
Chidambaram expressed concern over the future of the INDIA bloc in which his party is the major ally.
Speaking at the launch of Contesting Democratic Deficit, a book by Salman Khurshid and Mritunjay Singh Yadav, Chidambaram said he would be happy to see the alliance strong.
He said it can happen as there was time for consolidation.
“There has been no political party so formidably organised as the BJP,” he said.
Referring to the BJP led government, Chidambaram said “…it’s not just another political party. It’s a machine behind a machine and the two machines control all the machinery in India,” he said.
“They (BJP) are able to control and sometimes capture these institutions. It is a formidable machinery, …,” he said.
The book by Khurshid and Yadav is an insight revive the Congress ahead of the last Lok Sabha elections, including the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the formation of the INDIA bloc that brought together different political groups.
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