India bloc leaders to meet after Lok Sabha poll results, discuss future strategy

New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): A meeting will be held of INDIA bloc leaders after the results of Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday.
"INDIA leaders will obviously meet after the results are declared. Any other meaning being given to it is completely misleading and false," Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X on Monday.
Congress sources had said earlier that senior leaders of the INDIA alliance have been urged by the party to stay in the national capital till tomorrow evening or the next morning. They said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has also taken a positive stand on this.
The sources said that if the number of seats does not come as per expectations and assessment, then other options including demonstration, press conference, and meeting with the President will be discussed. The role of the Election Commission will also be questioned, they said. Congress leaders have insisted that the INDIA bloc will form the government after the Lok Sabha polls and will win 295 of 543 seats.
Congress leader Udit Raj said they will deliberate after the results and decide the course of action.
"There will be discussion on results and then the course of action will be communicated..We will go to the streets to save democracy because it is not their (BJP) heritage. It is the heritage of the Congress party. They (BJP) do not believe in democracy, they want to change the Constitution," the Congress leader said.
Votes will be counted tomorrow for Lok Sabha polls held in seven phases. Counting will also take place for assembly polls in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
The exit polls on June 1 predicted a hat-trick win for the ruling BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha polls, with a massive majority indicating that the ruling party would improve its performance in several states ruled by other parties. A few exit polls predicted that the NDA could reach the goal of "400 paar" as claimed by BJP leaders in the run-up to the general elections. (ANI)