"If CM Himanta is a person who can predict future then...": Congress leader Salman Khurshid

Assam CM along with several BJP leaders have been claiming that the party will easily dominate more than 400 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Reacting strongly to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's statements on the '400-par' election outcome, Congress leader Salman Khurshid said on Sunday that if he is a person who can predict the future, then it will be known on June 4 that who is losing and winning. CM Sarma had predicted the outcomes of the forthcoming elections.

Khurshudi said, "If he (CM Himanta) is a person who can predict the future, then it will be known on June 4 who is losing, who is winning, who is leaving and who is staying. Why is he coming again and again and saying this? Why is he not telling what work he and the Prime Minister have done?" he said. "Why are the people so worried? Why is unemployment increasing so much? Still, he has not said that inflation and unemployment will end on June 4. If he had said this, then the public would have listened to him," Salman Khurshid added.

Assam CM along with several BJP leaders have been claiming that the party will easily dominate more than 400 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. CM Himanta, while addressing a rally on May 15 in Jharkhand's Giridih said that when the BJP got 300 seats, it built the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and now temples will be built at Krishna Janmabhoomi site in Mathura and in place of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi after it gets 400 seats in Lok Sabha polls.

"I will tell you why we need 400. Last time we got 300 and we built Ram mandir. Now 400 is needed for Krishna Janmabhumi. Last time, when we got 300 seats, we did Pran Pratishtha at Ram Temple. If we built the Ram temple with 300 seats, won't Krishna Janmbhoomi temple be built when we get 400 seats? Shouldn't we build it?" he said. Earlier, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge accused the BJP of seeking 400 seats to oppress the poor.

Hitting out at PM Modi, Kharge said, "This election is being fought to keep India united and save the Constitution and democracy. Modi and his followers say again and again that BJP will cross 400- figure. They are seeking 400-plus seats not for the welfare of the poor, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward caste. They are seeking it to take away the poor people's rights." (ANI)

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