NCP (SP) national spokesperson Anish Gawande hosted CJP co-convenor Abhijeet Dipke at his house in Delhi through the Jantar Mantar protest. Close to the group, he wants it to become a political party and warns established parties against shutting young people out of electoral politics
The INDIA bloc’s November 1 rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan brought Opposition parties together over allegations of “vote chori.” Its next test is whether that mobilisation can produce a common political programme, sustain youth participation and translate into votes in the 2029 general election.
For Anish Gawande, national spokesperson for the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), this requires confronting the Opposition’s own weaknesses. He calls its “chronic lack of political imagination” a central problem. A common opponent, he argues, cannot substitute for debating differences over the economy, secularism and the kind of government the alliance wants to offer.