Bengaluru: With a name for unity, prime leaders of 26 opposition events started essential deliberations on Monday to chalk out their joint programme geared toward defeating the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, who had been seated subsequent to one another, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, chief ministers M Okay Stalin, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal and Hemant Soren and RJD chief Lalu Prasad had been amongst those that attended the dinner assembly the place discussions had been held to finalise the agenda for the formal talks beginning Tuesday morning. Sources stated NCP chief Sharad Pawar was the one chief among the many invitees not current on the assembly at Taj West End Hotel and he would arrive on Tuesday alongside together with his daughter Supriya Sule.
“It was a good meeting,” Mamata Banerjee later stated.
The leaders sat in entrance of an enormous banner with the “United We Stand” slogan, which was additionally placed on posters that dotted the streets of Bengaluru with photos of opposition leaders.
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Among others on the assembly hosted by Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah had been Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Farooq Abdullah (NC) and Mehbooba Mufti (PDP), in addition to Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), D Raja (CPI) and Jayant Chaudhary (RLD). A heat welcome was earlier accorded right here to all of the leaders on their arrival right here for the two-day brain-storming session.
UNITED WE STAND!
 Bengaluru, Karnataka pic.twitter.com/qw95lfotLx
— Congress (@INCIndia) July 17, 2023
The Congress asserted that Opposition unity can be “a game changer” for the Indian political state of affairs.
It took a swipe on the BJP, saying those that used to speak of defeating the opposition events alone are now making makes an attempt to breathe new life into the NDA which had turn out to be a “ghost”.
Claiming that the BJP was rattled, Congress president Kharge stated all opposition alliance companions will unitedly struggle in opposition to the BJP and thwart makes an attempt to divide them.
The Opposition assembly coincides with the NDA assembly convened on July 18 in Delhi, the place some new allies are prone to be a part of the ruling BJP-led coalition.
Talks of unity however, variations amongst opposition events, particularly those that have been conventional rivals stay, and reconciling political pursuits might be a difficult process.
Arriving for the Opposition assembly, CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury dominated out any alliance with the TMC in West Bengal and stated that secular events together with the Left and the Congress will tackle the BJP in addition to the TMC within the state.
Yechury, nonetheless, added that the endeavour is to cut back the cut up in opposition votes and they’ll chalk out a plan to struggle collectively.
The BJP, which has been focusing on these events over their variations, on Monday referred to as it a (*26*) leaders and stated such an alliance won’t do any good for the nation at current or sooner or later.
But Congress normal secretary organisation KC Venugopal stated the 26 opposition events are right here to maneuver ahead unitedly and provides an answer for individuals’s issues and to handle the issues over this “dictatorial government’s actions”.
Fifteen events together with the Congress, TMC, AAP, CPI, CPI-M, RJD, JMM, NCP, Shiv Sena (UBT), SP and JDU, attended the final assembly for opposition unity hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on June 23.
Among the events which might be added this time are MDMK, KDMK, VCK, RSP, CPI-ML, Forward Bloc, IUML, Kerala Congress (Joseph) and Kerala Congress (Mani), in addition to the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) of Krishna Patel and Tamil Nadu’s Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) led by M H Jawahirullah.
The complete energy of the opposition events attending this assembly is round 150 in Lok Sabha.
TMC chief Derek O’Brien stated political events on the Bengaluru assembly “were clearly setting the narrative” whereas the “BJP is reacting”.
He claimed that out of the NDA allies, eight don’t have a single MP, 9 have one MP every and three have two MPs every.
Kharge took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he had claimed that he alone is sufficient to tackle the Opposition, then why was he feeling the necessity to get 30 events collectively.
Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh stated makes an attempt are being made to breathe new life into the NDA “which had become a ghost”.
UNITED WE STAND pic.twitter.com/T88qJa3EKS
— Congress (@INCIndia) July 17, 2023
Venugopal stated the opposition events are all united by a typical function to guard democracy, constitutional rights and the independence of establishments on this nation.
The Parliament session is beginning on July 20 and the opposition events will chalk out the technique for that additionally, he stated.
“We are very sure that this (meeting) is going to be a game changer for the Indian political scenario,” Venugopal stated.
Asked who can be the chief of the alliance, Venugopal stated, “We have enough leaders, who have proved their mettle in various capacities. You don’t worry about the leader, worry about the situation in the country.”
Referring to his get together’s variations with the TMC, CPI(M) chief Yechury stated the state of affairs is completely different in each state.
“The effort is to make sure that in these conditions the division of votes which provides BJP the benefit ought to be minimal. This isn’t a brand new factor. Like in 2004, the Left had 61 seats, out of which we gained 57 defeating the Congress candidates…Then the Manmohan Singh authorities was shaped and it ran for 10 years.
“Mamata and CPI(M) will not happen. There will be secular parties along with the Left and the Congress in West Bengal which will fight against the BJP and TMC,” the CPI(M) normal secretary stated, including that on the Centre what kind this can take might beÂ
