Basavaraj Bommai's post on X.
Bengaluru: Former Chief Minister and MP Basavaraj Bommai has accused Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi of making a “failed attempt” to mislead the public by claiming that democracy in India has “died” since 2014.
In a post on X, Bommai said no one could accept Gandhi’s remarks, made at an event in Hyderabad, and asked which party had curtailed the Constitution to impose the Emergency and which party had enacted laws to bypass Supreme Court rulings it disagreed with. He said people were not ready to be “lectured on democracy” by such a party.
Bommai said Gandhi, having suffered consecutive electoral defeats since 2014, was making such statements out of frustration, and that this amounted to conceding defeat in the 2029 elections well in advance. He added that attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the past had only made him more powerful.
Bommai made the remarks in a post on X.
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