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.
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.
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.
Talking to ANI, Naqvi said, "Earlier Congress used to be against alliances but Modi ji has always been in favour of them...That is why NDA continues to grow...Everybody knows that PM Modi has worked for the welfare of all sections of society".
A Janata Dal (United) leader on Monday said that the BJP has begun to get afraid seeing the unity among opposition parties even as the Congress appreciated the Aam Aadmi Party's decision to take part in the Opposition meeting in Bengaluru hosted by it.
The second meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru is likely to see progress on the agenda of unity for the 2024 battle with the possibility that a convenor may be appointed and groups formed to decide on various issues apart from deciding on a common minimum programme
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav who arrived in Bengaluru on Monday to attend the two-day joint Opposition meeting, hoped that the people of the country would give the BJP a massive defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
While thanking the Congress government for taking a stand against the Centre's Ordinance, AAP MP said that the move by the grand old party assumes huge significance.
Speaking to reporters at the Chennai airport before flying to Bengaluru to attend the Opposition meet, CM Stalin said," "All Opposition parties have united to defeat the BJP-led Central government. We took the decision in Bihar to convene the second meeting in Karnataka today and tomorrow".
The CPI (M) General Secretary said that cooperation among the opposition is needed “in order to ensure that the country we are born in remains the country we were born in.”