Mission 2024: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on the former’s residence in Delhi to debate ‘united Opposition’ forward of General Election 2024.
Kharge has spoken to a number of Opposition leaders lately for forging unity amongst like-minded events to tackle the BJP. He reached out to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, and will have a gathering with prime opposition leaders in the approaching weeks.
It is speculated that the JD(U) supremo will even meet leaders of non-BJP events in a bid to forge an alliance to tackle the saffron social gathering in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
According to social gathering insiders, Kumar could try to meet AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and different regional events’ chiefs.
Kumar, on a number of events in the previous, suggested all Opposition events, together with the Congress, to affix fingers to defeat the BJP in 2024.
BJP assaults Kumar
On the chief minister’s go to to Delhi, Bihar BJP chief Samrat Choudhary stated, “Kumar’s dream to turn into the prime minister would by no means fulfill because the folks of the nation consider in PM Narendra Modi and his management.
There isn’t any unity among the many opposition leaders in any respect”. However, Kumar had said a number of occasions that he doesn’t have any ambition to turn into the prime minister.
The Bihar CM had gone to Delhi in September final yr when he met leaders reminiscent of Sharad Pawar, Arvind Kejriwal, D Raja, Sitaram Yechuri and Akhilesh Yadav.
A “united front” would be capable to scale back the BJP to lower than 100 seats”, Kumar had stated in February whereas talking on the eleventh normal conference of the CPI(ML-L) which has prolonged exterior assist to the Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan authorities.
