All anti-BJP parties in northeast must come together to defeat BJP: Chidambaram

Rajya Sabha MP P. Chidambaram on Thursday said that most chief ministers in northeast India are actually Congressmen of the past, they all switched over and when Congress comes back to power at Centre, they all will switch back to Congress.

Talking to media on the sidelines of the state-level training camp for party members, the former finance minister of India said, “The problem in the northeast is there are no lasting ideological commitments, regional parties tend to change their positions very frequently. Congress' failure in the northeast is our own as well as that of regional parties who are failing to live up to their ideologies”.

He added, “If you wish to defeat the BJP, all the anti-BJP parties in the northeast must come together.” He further added that militancy has increased in the Kashmir valley. "We had contained militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. All that has been reversed by the authoritarian and unilateral approach of BJP," he added.


The senior Congress leader said, “I admit there is a structural weakness in Congress, I admit that we lost elections, but we have won elections as well as in alliance and as a single party."