SS: official media briefing on the meet of the Rashtra Manch at Sharad Pawar's residence in Delhi (at the initiative of Yashwant Sinha). https://fb.watch/6iIoddhjtQ/ >
fairly hazy. it aspires to become a think tank +, on the national plane, for anti-BJP politics. That, by its very nature, poses some sort of challenge to the Congress - as the natural, and default, epicentre.
As, as of now, the ideational alternatives/critiques keep coming from only the Congress and, to an extent, pretty enfeebled Left.
On the flip side, it offers some hope of acting as a catalytic agent facilitating formation of a broader anti-BJP front - based on a (common) programme and, thereby, also ensuring some cohesion, with wider public acceptability.
NCP leader Majid Menon said it was not a meeting for forming an anti-BJP front or a non-Congress front. “It was not an anti-BJP political front meeting called by Sharad Pawar. It was a meeting of Rashtriya Manch held at his residence. Like-minded individuals or people with the same ideology attended the meeting and there were several apolitical personalities present in the meeting,” Menon said.
“The broader purpose of the meeting was to discuss people-centric issues. Attendees stressed on the need for an alternative vision for the country and a team will be formed to realise that vision,” said Samajwadi Party leader Ghanshyam Tiwari .
“Narendra Modi wasn’t mentioned even once, nor was a third front,” said former Rajya Sabha member Pavan Varma. “There can be no discussion of a third front without the Congress. Mr Pawar felt that the forum should be broadened with the inclusion of other parties and personalities.”
Rashtra Manch Meet: Prashant Kishore accelerates preparing alternate for Narendra Modi | Third Eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVY1YN_z7GQ Jun 23, 2021
After winning the West Bengal assembly elections, poll strategist #PrashantKishore has been instrumental in bringing the shattered opposition together, and in this series, #PK had met #SharadPawar in Mumbai and now he brought them together in Delhi in order to search for an alternative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
For the last 2 General Elections, the BJP supporters used to say that There Is No Alternative #TINA and the opposition has been saying that Modi Is No Alternative #MINA but after the #RashtraManch Meet in New Delhi on June 22nd, it seems Prashant Kishore has accelerated his efforts to create an alternate discourse and this may lead to finding a new leader who can be the alternative of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister.