Manch 2023 offers platform to debate political agenda for 2024 polls

A free-flowing discussion on nation building and decision makers' vision threw up a multitude of ideas on the opening day of the threeday event Manch 2023, organised by ITV Network, here on Wednesday.

- RAHUL CHHABRA

Union ministers and top political minds shared the stage at the event as the tempo for the general elections next year starts to build, amid competing strategy of the BJP to score a hat-trick using "Modi guarantee" in 2024 and the rival 1.N.D.I. A bloc vowing to stop the advance of the saffron brigade.

Member of national executive of RSS Ram Madhav predicted an even bigger mandate for the BJP in 2024 and said the "mature voters of the country have shown in the Assembly elections that they do not want to change a performing government for the sake of change." Biplab Kumar Deb, BJP incharge in Haryana and former Tripura CM, said the outcome of the recent Assembly elections has already made it clear that the 1.40 crore voters of the country have made up their mind to re-elect the Narendra Modi government.

BJP MP Ravi Kishan said "Ab ki baar 400 par" (over 400 seats expected for BJP in 2024) as he invited applause from the audience as he spoke in the Bhojpuri dialect. His party colleague and actor Manoj Tiwari also enthralled audience with his poetic renditions dedicated to Modi's achievement.

Tejasvi Surya, BJP MP from Bangalore, said the BJP cadre is working so hard that in the next 10 years the party will form government in southern states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.