Opposition Party Meeting: In view of the Lok Sabha elections against the BJP, the next meeting of the opposition parties engaged in uniting will be held on July 17 and 18 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. 24 parties can participate in this meeting to be hosted by the Congress.
News agency PTI quoted sources as saying that MDMK, KDMK, VCK, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Forward Bloc, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and Kerala Congress (Mani) have been called in this meeting. Apart from this, an invitation has also been sent to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), but AAP has not clarified its stand on this.
Which parties can attend?
15 big parties participated in the hosting of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on behalf of JDU in Patna, Bihar. In this, President Mallikarjun Kharge from Congress, former President Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Trinamool Congress, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren from JMM, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav, Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief and Former CM Uddhav Thackeray was
Apart from this, Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin from DMK, Omar Abdullah from National Conference, Mehbooba Mufti from Peoples Democratic Party, D Raja, General Secretary of Communist Party of India, Marxist Communist Party (CPI) were present in this meeting. General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and some other leaders attended the meeting.
Although Rashtriya Lok Dal President Jayant Chaudhary could not attend the meeting in Patna due to family programme.
In such a situation, it is believed that this party will again participate in the meeting to be held in Bengaluru because after the meeting held in Patna, all these parties reiterated the point of solidarity while holding a joint press conference. All the leaders including Banerjee, Kharge and NCP chief Sharad Pawar had agreed to the meeting to be held in Bengaluru.
What did you say when you attended the meeting?
AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha said about calling the party in the meeting that we will consider it because the Congress has not yet cleared its stand on the Delhi ordinance. During the meeting held in Patna on June 23, Kejriwal, the national convenor of AAP, raised the issue of the ordinance and asked the Congress to clear its stand on it.
What did Congress say?
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Monday (July 10) expressed hope that former Congress President Sonia Gandhi would attend the meeting of opposition parties. He said that Kharge has requested senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi regarding this. Please tell that she was not involved in the meeting to be held in Patna.
