Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav has said that there is nothing wrong if Congress president Rahul Gandhi claims the Prime Minister’s post in case his party gets the most number of seats in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.
Tejashwi Yadav has been successfully handling the RJD after his father Lalu Yadav was sent to prison after he was found guilty of enabling the Fodder scam. In a conversation with Hindustan Times, the RJD leader said that the smaller parties should come together to support Congress and discard their egos.
Yadav said, “Rahul Gandhi is capable. He or even Sonia ma’am could have been the PM much earlier. He wanted to gain experience. But the way he is interacting with smaller parties, there is a big difference between what Rahul was then and (what he is) now.
“His logic is not wrong. Whoever is the largest party — like the BJP in 2014 — has claimed the Prime Minister’s post. If some other party emerges as the largest, they too can claim it. Where is the problem in making such a claim?” he said.
He defended the Congress saying that the Third front countries were not successful because Congress wasn’t present.
When asked about the leadership issues among the opposition, he said that that will be decided after the polls and if there is a post-poll alliance, then there will be no problem with the leadership issue.
When quizzed about the difference between RJD of Lalu Prasad and the RJD under Tejashwi, he replied that it’s the same, the party runs on his ideology even if he is not there.
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