Opposition unity for Lok Sabha 2024: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has been making efforts in the direction of opposition unity forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, is likely to meet his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee on April 25. Taking the step to construct a united Opposition to tackle the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Bihar Chief Minister will meet Mamata Banerjee on the latter’s Kalighat residence in South Kolkata on April 25 night.
Nitish Kumar is likely to arrive in Kolkata on Tuesday morning. As per the Trinamool Congress insiders instructed information company IANS, there’s a excessive chance of his assembly with Mamata Banerjee throughout his go to to the state. A member of the West Bengal cupboard mentioned that the assembly will emphasise the unity of the opposition forces towards the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
In the final couple of months, Banerjee has had conferences with a number of non-BJP and non-Congress leaders on the problem of opposition unity towards the BJP in the 2024 polls.
Mamata Banerjee met Akhilesh Yadav
Last month, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met her in Kalighat. In the assembly, the 2 leaders agreed to preserve a distance with Congress and somewhat give attention to the unity of the regional forces towards BJP in the 2024 polls. Soon after assembly Akhilesh, Mamata Banerjee went to Odisha and had a gathering together with her counterpart Naveen Patnaik. This was adopted by a go to to Kolkata by Janata Dal (Secular) chief H.D. Kumaraswamy throughout which he met Banerjee.
Last week, she additionally known as up her counterpart in Tamil Nadu M.Ok. Stalin and mentioned the unity of opposition forces towards the function of Governors in the opposition-ruled state in the nation. In the current previous, Mamata Banerjee, in all her public conferences, burdened that if the opposition will get united earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, then it’s potential to carry an finish to the BJP-led regime. However, she has all the time prevented the tough problem of whether or not Congress is part of her blueprint of a united opposition towards the BJP.
Nitish Kumar pitches for Opposition unity
On the opposite hand, Nitish Kumar has been additionally assembly numerous opposition leaders and attending totally different occasions that introduced collectively totally different opposition events for Opposition unity. Earlier this month, Bihar CM alongside along with his deputy Tejashwi Yadav met key Congress leaders together with Rahul Gandhi, occasion president Mallikarjun Kharge and his counterpart Arvind Kejriwal in a bid to unite the opposition towards the Modi authorities forward of subsequent 12 months’s normal elections. After the assembly, Kumar mentioned he’ll string to carry all Opposition events collectively. We accomplished the final spherical speak with Congress, he added.
Kumar additionally had a gathering with two distinguished Left leaders – CPI (M) normal secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI normal secretary D Raja this month. Notably, CM Kumar is likely to name on his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in the primary week of May. He may meet Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao.
(With IANS inputs)