Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has dismissed the possibility of any federal front posing a challenge to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A vacuum in the opposition caused by the weakening of Congress cannot be filled by an alliance of regional parties, he said.
It is clear that the opposition is fragmented. You have the so-called aspirations of a federal front which is a tried, tested and failed idea. It has been tested in the past and it has failed every time it has come up. I don’t see JD(U) president’s call for unity among non-BJP parties as a threat.Arun Jaitley, Union Minister for Finance
This was in answer to a question that with the Congress being in power in only six states, which party or conglomeration of parties could be the other pole on the country’s political landscape against the BJP. However, he conceded the possibility of some party or the other emerging as a principal opposition to the BJP.
(With PTI inputs)
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