Just two days after, opposition parties joined forces against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said it's going to be advantage BJP in the next general election as an aspirational society will not commit a "collective suicide" by voting for a short-lived political alliance.

The two-fold strategy of the opposition parties for the 2019 general elections is to pursue anti-Modi agenda and take advantage of the electoral arithmetic, he said in a Facebook post titled 'Agenda for 2019 Modi Vs Chaos'.

CNBC-TV18 caught up with Sanjay Jha, spokesperson, Congress; Narendra Taneja, spokesperson, BJP; Manisha Priyam academician and political analyst and Ghanshayam Tiwari spokesperson, SP, to discuss pre-poll alliances and the war of words.

First Published:Jan 21, 2019 10:35 PM IST