Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge together with Opposition MPs take out ‘Tiranga March’ from Parliament to Vijay Chowk in New Delhi lately.
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has spoken to high Opposition leaders together with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his Tamil Nadu counterpart M.Okay. Stalin and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in the previous two-three days to hold ahead the theme of Opposition unity in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
A supply instructed The Hindu that Mr. Kharge’s calls to the highest leaders had been to discover the potential of having a joint Opposition meet to hold ahead the theme of Opposition unity that was witnessed after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha.
Though the Congress didn’t formally touch upon the agenda of those cellphone calls, they’re being seen as step one to discussing the potential of pre-poll alliance in essential States which have as many as 127 Lok Sabha seats – Maharashtra, Bihar and Tamil Nadu.
However, it’s not clear if the Congress president will attain out to different key Opposition leaders like Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Telangana counterpart and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Okay. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR).
In Bengal, the Congress had an electoral alliance with Trinamool’s arch-rivals, the Left events, and in Telangana, the social gathering has pitched itself as the principle challenger to the KCR authorities.
“It was a follow-up of what was discussed and agreed to in the dinner hosted for floor leaders of the other Opposition parties at Kharge ji’s residence on March 27,” the supply stated, including, “It is work in progress.”
At the dinner meet, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, in the presence of former Congress chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Rahul Gandhi, had made it clear that repeated assaults on Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar have created unease amongst Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies just like the NCP and the Uddhav-led faction of the Shiv Sena.
Mr. Pawar added that the late Savarkar is a revered determine in Maharashtra, who was by no means a part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Opposition’s political struggle was towards the BJP and the Narendra Modi authorities. Mr. Gandhi is learnt to have instructed the leaders that although his ideological place on the Savarkar concern is ‘firm,’ he was keen to “mellow” his place right down to accommodate allies.
Subsequently, Rajya Sabha MP and Sena chief, Sanjay Raut, who had stayed away from joint Opposition conferences, interacted with the Gandhis in the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) meet to resolve their variations over contentious points.
