HD Kumaraswamy said his father, former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, also believed in seeing Congress’s Rahul Gandhi as prime ministerial candidate.
PM Modi was “only a paper tiger”, he said, and Rahul Gandhi had matured as a politician.
Modi-ji speaks well, his presentation is good, he uses social media but what is his achievement in the last four years,” Mr Kumaraswamy said.
Mr Kumaraswamy was among the leaders who starred in Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s 23-party opposition unity rally on Sunday. At the mega meeting at Kolkata’s Brigade Ground, opposition leaders resolved to take on the BJP and PM Modi together, saying the current government was past its sell-by date.
DMK leader MK Stalin, who has made a strong pitch for Rahul Gandhi as PM candidate, was silent on the subject at the opposition rally.
The obvious leadership dilemma of any grand opposition coalition had BJP president Amit Shah commenting that Mamata Banerjee’s unity show had “23 parties and nine PM candidates”.