Deriding the Opposition’s planned show of unity at a gathering in Patna scheduled for this week, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on June 18 said it was not possible to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi even if all Opposition parties joined hands, and that Mr. Modi remained the “unchallenged king”.
Mr. Fadnavis further claimed that the BJP would win an even higher tally in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections than its previous score of 302 in the 2019 parliamentary poll.
Addressing a party gathering in Nagpur to welcome the ostracised Congress leader Ashish Deshmukh into the BJP’s fold, Mr. Fadnavis disparaged the joint Opposition meeting scheduled to take part in Patna on June 23.