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Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be EX PM after the results of the Lok Sabha election are declared on May 23. He said the people were “harassed” by the ruling BJP with its policies and would be voted out in the on going Lok Sabha polls.
Patel, a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat, expressed confidence that the Congress would win between “12-15” out of the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress had drawn a blank in Gujarat.
On grand alliance’s PM candidate, Patel said a decision in this regard would be taken after the allies secure a majority, even as he expressed confidence that the present Prime Minister would not continue in the post.
“Members of the grand alliance would sit and take a decision on the next prime ministerial candidate. However, there’s no doubt that Modi would become an ex-PM after May 23,” he added.
Modi and other BJP leaders have regularly attacked the opposition alliance for not being able to project a PM face ahead of the general election.
From Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and Andhra Pradesh CM and Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu, several names have been suggested by supporters as potential prime ministerial candidates in the recent months. However, the Opposition is yet to confirm any candidate.