Opposition Unity: Chorus Grows For Congress To Make More Sacrifices Ahead Of 2024 Polls | India News

With the Lok Sabha elections simply an yr away, non-Congress opposition leaders are actively participating in one-to-one interplay to succeed in a consensus. The refrain is rising among the many opposition leaders asking Congress to make extra sacrifices to take different events together with it. On Saturday, an array of opposition leaders shared dias with Congress in Karnataka throughout the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah. Among the leaders current on the event had been National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and his Deputy Yadav, Tamil Nadu CM M Okay Stalin, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, NCP President Sharad Pawar, actor-politician Kamal Haasan, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI General Secretary D Raja attended the occasion.

Neglect Of Regional Satraps 

However, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Reddy, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik and Telangana CM Okay Chandrashekar Rao had been conspicuous by their absence on the occasion. These states represent round 225 Lok Sabha seats and are essential as regional events are sturdy in all these states aside from Uttar Pradesh with 80 parliamentary seats. It is noteworthy to say that Congress had not prolonged an invite to Chandrasekhar Rao, Naveen Patnaik, Jagan Mohan and Arvind Kejriwal and BSP chief Mayawati.

Mehboob Mufti Warns Congress

Reacting to Delhi CM Kejriwal’s absence throughout the Karnataka swearing-in ceremony, PD chief Mufti right this moment mentioned that mentioned Congress has to sacrifice extra, in any other case there are different choices. Mufti was not directly hinting at a 3rd entrance in case Congress fails to comply with the situations of the regional events. While the Congress has stopped wanting voicing its help for Kejriwal within the AAP vs Centre row, Mehbooba Mufti supported the Aam Aadmi Party saying that it was a wake-up name for everybody as it may well occur wherever within the nation. She mentioned that whereas Karnataka has proven a ray of hope, no matter occurred in Jammu and Kashmir goes to occur round the entire nation as BJP doesn’t wish to have any opposition.

Nitish Backs AAP Against Centre

Delhi CM Kejriwal additionally bought help from Bihar CM Nitish Kumar who has been making an attempt to rally help of all opposition towards the BJP. Kumar met the Delhi CM on the latter’s residence in New Delhi right this moment and prolonged help to him within the AAP authorities’s ongoing tussle with the Centre over the management of administrative providers together with transfers and postings of Grade A officers. Bihar Deputy CM and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav additionally accompanied Kumar on the assembly.  

Mamata Banerjee’s Formula

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has not too long ago shared a tentative seat-sharing formulation the place she supplied 200-odd Lok Sabha seats to Congress and urged that the Congress ought to let regional events contest on the seats the place they’re sturdy. Banerjee additionally mentioned that the Congress must make extra sacrifices to regulate with regional events. Former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav had additionally supported Banerjee’s evaluation saying that Congress ought to help regional events within the areas the place they’re sturdy. While Banerjee not too long ago met Bihar CM Kumar and Odisha CM Patnaik individually, Patnaik has overtly mentioned that no third entrance was mentioned throughout the assembly.

Optics Won’t Work: Sibal

Senior Congress chief and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday mentioned Opposition unity requires way more than optics. “Siddaramaiah Swearing in Ceremony: Is this sign of Opposition Unity with a 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,” he mentioned. While Sibal is true in his evaluation, it is the Congress excessive command who wants to grasp this primary if the grand previous social gathering desires to defeat the mighty BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls the place Narendra Modi will search a 3rd straight time period because the Prime Minister.