The second and concluding day of the opposition unity meeting in Bengaluru was held, with 26 like-minded parties closing ranks with a common aim of taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next year's Lok Sabha polls.
“Opposition parties are meeting in Bengaluru, and Mamata Banerjee is also participating. It is surprising that they are talking about democracy after killing democracy in West Bengal,” said BJP leader Saroj Pandey, as a fact-finding committee of the party reached West Bengal.
Representatives from a total of 38 political parties were in attendance as the meeting the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the BJP got underway in the national capital on Tuesday evening.
The BJP is holding a meeting of 38 parties of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the national capital on Tuesday that will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said that the next meeting of the like-minded parties to take forward the agenda of opposition unity against the BJP will be held in Mumbai and an 11-member coordination committee will be formed.
After the meeting of Opposition parties in Bengaluru, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked whether the National Democratic Alliance would be able to challenge the newly formed Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance or I.N.D.I.A.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said at the meeting of opposition parties here on Tuesday that there are differences “between some of us” at the state level but these are not ideological and are not so big that these cannot put them behind for the sake of people
In a scathing attack on the opposition parties who are holding a meeting in Bengaluru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said people see it as a gathering of the “corrupt” and alleged that these parties provide cover to each other when “their corruption is exposed”
The second and concluding day of the opposition unity meeting in Bengaluru is set to begin here on Tuesday, with 26 like-minded parties closing ranks with a common aim of taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next year's Lok Sabha polls.
Agnimitra Paul alleged that parties like CPM and Congress do not have any ideology. She said that while they are opposing one another in West Bengal or in Kerala, they are having dinner together in Bengaluru.
With Aam Aadmi Party which emerged with anti-Congress agenda and marked its footprints in some states, has suddenly landed in the Opposition's platform following the Congress support to the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal against Centre's ordinance regarding control of administrative services in