BJP-led alliance will stride through with clear mandate in 2024 polls: Goa minister

A couple of people and parties coming together without a leader don't make a party, he said.

The BJP-led alliance under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will "stride through with a clear mandate" in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Goa minister Rohan Khaunte said.

As he exuded confidence about the ruling BJP's performance, he also mocked the opposition bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). "Who is the leader of I.N.D.I.A," he asked in an interview to PTI. "It as a group of people coming together against one man."

Khaunte, who holds the portfolios of tourism and IT in the Pramod Sawant-led government in Goa, spoke of the "double-engine sarkar", and the BJP and its allies working together to ensure a "great mandate for the PM". Asked what his assessment is of the 2024 elections in the light of the opposition INDIA bloc being forged ahead of the 2024 polls, he said, "You don't need to do an assessment."

A couple of people and parties coming together without a leader don't make a party, he said. He said he is "100 per cent sure" the prime minister's leadership will win the election.

2024 elections which will allow "us to work ahead". "And, the next five years, under PM Modi ji, will allow us to take our ideas and continuance of our ideas ahead in meeting the expectation of the overall vision plan we have kept for tourism 2.0 Goa," he told.