Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Monday held his party-sponsored All India Federation for Social Justice conference in Delhi which is seen as a serious train to carry the Opposition events collectively ahead of the General Election 2024.
The Tamil Nadu CM made a strong pitch for opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, saying there was “no use in separate voices,” and that there ought to be collective effort in the direction of guaranteeing federalism, brotherhood, equality and social justice.
In his handle on the first conference of the DMK-sponsored All India Federation for Social Justice held within the hybrid mode, he additionally slammed the ruling BJP in Karnataka for removing reservation for Muslims, saying it was achieved with an eye fixed on the May 10 Assembly polls in that state.
In a gathering attended by prime political leaders of the nation together with the CMs of Rajasthan and Jharkhand, Ashok Gehlot and Hemant Soren, respectively, normal secretaries of CPI (M) and CPI, Sitaram Yechury and D Raja and J&Okay National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, Stalin strongly batted for social justice and hit out on the ruling BJP on the Centre for implementing the ten per cent EWS quota, questioning the logic behind financial standing being a standards to increase the welfare measure.
Calling for collective efforts, he mentioned “we should give voice for ensuring federalism, brotherhood, equality, social justice…this cannot be a mere voice, there is no use of separate voices. It should be a voice of unity, a voice of coalition,” the 70-year-old chief mentioned.
“However idealistic an ideology may be, for it to succeed the unity among parties which has accepted the ideology is of great importance. Such a unity is not enough if it is in only a few states. It has to happen in every state. It has to be for the whole of India. It is for that unity federation like this will serve as a foundation. Let us fight together,” Stalin mentioned.
Will social justice unite opposition?
Top Opposition leaders, led by DMK chief MK Stalin, took half in a nationwide conference on social justice in Delhi on Monday.
The All India Federation for Social Justice, a brainchild of Stalin, held its first nationwide conference on the theme — “Taking Forward the Struggle for Social Justice and Joint National Programme for Social Justice Movement”. The conference was addressed by a number of Opposition leaders.
Seen as a show of Opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the conference was attended by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
Other attendees embrace Derek O’Brien (Trinamool Congress), Sanjay Singh (Aam Aadmi Party), CPI(M) normal secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI normal secretary D Raja, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, Chhagan Bhujbal (Nationalist Congress Party), Manoj Jha (Rashtriya Janata Dal), ET Muhammad Basheer (Indian Union Muslim League), Okay Keshava Rao (Bharat Rashtra Samithi) and MDMK chief Vaiko.
This is the second try of the DMK to unite the Opposition, rallying round Stalin. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Tejashwi Yadav and Farooq Abdullah had been amongst those that had been half of the DMK chief’s seventieth birthday celebrations lately.
(With PTI enter)
