BENGALURU: Gearing up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has rallied help from a complete of 25 events for the second Opposition Unity assembly in Karnataka’s Bengaluru starting on Monday. Leaders of no less than 26 Opposition events will converge at a lodge in Bengaluru on July 17-18 as a part of their efforts to current a united entrance in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities within the Centre. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, DK Shivakumar, has been deputed as in-charge to watch all of the preparations for the assembly. Arrangements have been made for all of the opposition leaders to remain at a five-star lodge within the metropolis, get together sources stated.
As per a tentative schedule, on Monday, Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications, Jairam Ramesh, and Congress basic secretary, KC Venugopal will maintain a joint press convention at 11 am. And all of the opposition leaders will begin arriving for the assembly within the afternoon. An casual assembly is scheduled at 6 pm after which there will likely be dinner at 8 pm. On July 18, the assembly will kick off at 11 am and can proceed until 4 pm.
Following this, there will likely be a press convention during which the marketing campaign technique for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls could also be introduced. According to sources, the identify of the opposition alliance will likely be determined, and the frequent minimal program will likely be mentioned within the Bengaluru assembly. Moreover, a number of committees are anticipated to be shaped which can maintain conferences to deliberate on varied issues which will come up within the alliance. Various teams and sub-groups may additionally be shaped, they stated.
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Sources stated {that a} dialogue may additionally be held on find out how to area a typical opposition candidate on no less than 80 per cent of the Lok Sabha seats in opposition to the BJP, find out how to have alliances within the states and find out how to distribute tickets at key constituencies. “In the meeting, deliberations will also be held on Uniform Civil Code (UCC),” they added.
All bigwigs within the opposition, together with former Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, together with Rahul Gandhi are anticipated to attend the essential opposition assembly in Bengaluru. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) additionally confirmed its presence on the assembly on Sunday. This got here after the Congress made its stand clear and stated that it’s going to oppose the Centre’s ordinance on administrative companies in Delhi if a invoice is delivered to exchange the ordinance within the Parliament.
Earlier, through the Opposition assembly in Bihar’s Patna on June 23, a rift was seen between the AAP and the Congress, after the latter delayed its stand on the Centre’s ordinance. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to return for the opposition assembly as properly regardless of her leg damage, following former Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s name.
Earlier within the Patna assembly, 16 opposition events have been invited, and 15 of them attended the assembly. Apart from the Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), Janata Dal (United) (JDU), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Samajwadi Party, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (NC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPIML), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal have been among the many record of invitees for the Patna assembly.
Rashtriya Lok Dal Party chief Jayant Chowdhary who had earlier distanced himself from the Patna assembly is scheduled to attend the second assembly in Bengaluru on Monday. In addition to those, the Congress has invited 10 new events to the second opposition assembly in Bengaluru to extend its tally over the NDA. These embrace Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Kongu Desa Makkal Katchi (KDMK), Forward Bloc, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Kerala Congress (Joseph), Kerala Congress (Mani), Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) and Tamil Nadu’s Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK).
“Congress, the main host of this two-day meet, is trying to make it look grander than that called by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on June 13,” sources identified.
