Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar once again retorted that he is having talks with several people while it is underway with some other leaders of like-minded parties for uniting Opposition forces against the BJP-led government at the Centre for Lok Sabha polls in 2024.
In a bid to put up a combined challenge against the BJP at the Centre in next year's Lok Sabha elections, a meeting of 11 political parties, spearheaded by the Congress's Assam unit, was held in Guwahati on Thursday.
Taking a swipe at Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, political analyst Prashant Kishor on Tuesday said that Tejashwi, who had promised 10 lakh jobs, would not have got a job himself had he not been the son of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav.
In a bid to achieve opposition unity before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Monday.
"We will go ahead together. We have no personal ego, we want to work together collectively. I have made just one request to Nitish Kumar. Jayaprakash (Narayan ) ji's movement started from Bihar," Mamata said.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has taken upon himself the task of uniting Opposition forces against the BJP-led government at the Centre, will call on his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Monday.
While reacting to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's call for opposition unity, AIMIM chief Owaisi in a press conference said, "To stop BJP in 2024, you have to stop it on the basis of ideology. You cannot stop BJP by compromising on ideology. You have to show the difference. Why is CM not going to Mad
BJP leader and Union Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi on Friday took a swipe at opposition parties over their attempts at unity for the 2024 battle and asked "if jackals come together, can they fight a lion".
As part of efforts to forge opposition unity to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi with the discussions centring on the need talk to other parties and to move together in the
Terming the process of uniting the Opposition as just a beginning, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said that "to save the country and democracy and keep the Constitution safe" the opposition parties are ready to fight as 'one'.
Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday backed Nitish Kumar as the Prime Ministerial candidate in the Lok Sabha elections 2024 and said that he has all the qualities to hold the office.