Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury blamed the current political situation and post-poll violence in the state on her governance and said Congress would consider support only if she accepts Rahul Gandhi as the leader of the INDIA alliance

Congress leaders Harshwardhan Sapkal and Nana Patole, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) legislator Rohit Pawar, and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said PM Modi's speech for mainly focusing on attacking rival parties