"Of course, the ultimate goal is the 2024 Lok Sabha elections for which we have to begin to plan systematically with the single-minded objective of giving to our country a government that believes in the values of the Freedom Movement and in the principles and provisions of our Constitution,"
Taking a sarcastic dig at the PM, Gandhi said that Modi has fulfilled his promise of doing what has never happened in the country in 70 years before his coming to power.
What happened today was a successful test for a ‘united opposition’ ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections against a single party which rules the Centre and 15 states on its own, and is a part of the government in five other states.
Seen as a litmus test of the mood of the electorate as the nation heads to polls early in 2019, the bypolls revealed a changing picture of the political landscape whose canvas has been increasingly dominated by the saffron colour since 2014.
