"The Congress is confident of winning the heartland states in the general elections as well, along with allies," Chidambaram told IANS at a news conference in the party's state unit office in Bengaluru.
Exuding confidence over yet another win after their resounding victory of the recently concluded Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that the party is confident of winning in the same heartland states in the ensuing general elections in April-May 2019.
"The Congress is confident of winning the heartland states in the general elections as well, along with allies," Chidambaram told IANS at a news conference in the party's state unit office in Bengaluru.
Asserting that demonetisation and a "flawed" Goods and Services Tax (GST) had damaged India's economy, the former Union Finance Minister said every citizen knew that the twin measures had impacted the country, destroyed jobs and small and medium enterprises.
"No one can erase from the people's minds that demonetisation and a flawed GST have damaged India's economy. The BJP will not be able to erase that perception," reiterated Chidambaram when asked if the twin "blows" would impact the electoral prospects of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the national level.
On the claim of the NDA government that additional jobs were created on the evidence of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data on people in payrolls, Chidambaram said such data meant that one more job was formalised and not an additional job.
(With IANS inputs)
