‘Mood of Those Against Cong in 2014 Now Anti-Modi’: Sanjay Nirupam

“There was an undercurrent against the BJP party, the Modi government,” said Congress LS candidate Sanjay Nirupam.

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam cast his vote on Monday.

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Sanjay Nirupam, the Congress’ Lok Sabha candidate from North West Mumbai, said the mood of the people has gone from against the Congress in 2014 to against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019.

Speaking to The Quint soon after he cast his vote, Nirupam expressed his confidence on winning the election.

“I was voting for one of the best candidates in the constituency. I was voting for one of the most hardworking and accessible candidate in the constituency. I am the best candidate so I voted for myself.”

Sanjay Nirupam

Six seats of Mumbai are voting in the fourth phase of the 17th Lok Sabha elections on Monday, 29 April.

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‘Undercurrent Against BJP in 2019’

The Congress leader said undercurrent this time had changed as compared to 2014.

He said, “In 2014, there was a mood of the people against the Congress party. This time it was not like that, there was an undercurrent against the BJP party, the Modi government. There was a mood against the sitting MP of this constituency, that’s why people accepted us.”

The ex-Mumbai Congress president Nirupam is locked in a fight with Shiv Sena’s Gajanan Kritikar and the Bahujan Samajwadi Party’s Subhash Pasi for the North West Mumbai Constituency.