Rahul Gandhi will stay in opposition for next 25 years: Kerala BJP chief K Surendran

New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): Kerala BJP President K Surendran took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi saying that he will stay in the opposition for the next 25 years.

His remarks come after reports claimed that Congress will make Rahul Gandhi the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.

Surendran also stated that people have embraced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of development, and the BJP-NDA alliance government will complete 5 years.

“During the election campaign we were saying that Rahul Gandhi has betrayed Wayanad people… The people of Wayanad will teach a lesson to the Congress Party… Rahul Gandhi will stay in opposition for the next 25 years. Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party will never make a government in India because… all the parties of the INDI alliance together got 230 seats and BJP alone got 240 seats… It was a game-changer election this time… People accepted PM Narendra Modi’s development politics. This government will complete 5 years,” he told ANI.

The Congress Working Committee passed the resolution that party MP Rahul Gandhi should be appointed as the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, sources said on Saturday.

Rahul Gandhi won the Lok Sabha elections from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh and Wayanad in Kerala.

Meanwhile, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari on Saturday said that party leader Sonia Gandhi has been unanimously elected as Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).

“Sonia Gandhi ji has been unanimously elected as the Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP),” Tiwari told ANI.

In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls the BJP won 240 seats, much lower than its 2019 tally of 303. The Congress, on the other hand, registered a strong improvement, winning 99 seats. While the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won 292 seats, the INDIA bloc crossed the 230 mark.

On Wednesday, leaders of parties in the NDA held a meeting and elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi as their leader. PM Modi will lead the third successive NDA government as Prime Minister.

Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi is likely to take oath for the third successive term in office on June 9.