NEW DELHI: With a big variety of Opposition leaders current on the swearing-in ceremony of the Congress authorities in Karnataka, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday mentioned Opposition unity requires way more than optics of this nature and harassed the necessity for assembly of minds, a typical agenda and sacrificing partisan pursuits.
In a present of opposition unity, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah attended the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah because the Karnataka chief minister on Saturday. In a tweet, Sibal, a distinguished Opposition voice, mentioned, “Siddaramaiah Swearing in Ceremony: Is this sign of Opposition Unity with significant number of leaders present? My view: Opposition Unity requires much more than optics of this nature. Requires meeting of minds, a common agenda, sacrificing partisan interests.”
Sibal, who was a Union minister throughout UPA 1 and a pair of, had give up the Congress in May final yr and was elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Independent member with the Samajwadi Party’s assist. He not too long ago floated a non-electoral platform ‘Insaaf’ geared toward combating injustice.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, CPI normal secretary D Raja, RJD chief and Bihar deputy chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction) leaders Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai, TMC’s Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Makkal Nidhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan, IUML’s Abdussamad Samadani, CPI(ML)’s Dipankar Bhattacharya, Revolutionary Socialist Party N Okay Premchandran, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi’s Thol. Thirumavalavan, Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Jayant Singh, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Mehbooba Mufti and JD(U) chief Lalan Singh, amongst others, have been current on the swearing-in ceremony in Bengaluru.
The Congress had not prolonged an invite to Telangana Chief Minister and BRS chief Okay Chandrasekhar Rao, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSRCP chief Y S Jagan Mohan and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Also, no invite had been despatched to BSP chief Mayawati.
Samajwadi chief Akhilesh Yadav was invited for the ceremony however didn’t attend.
