INDIA bloc’s mega Mumbai meet begins today
The opposition bloc INDIA will be holding its third meeting in Mumbai on Thursday and Friday to discuss its plans for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The alliance is likely to announce a coordination committee, a logo, and panels to draft a common minimum programme of the alliance.
The agenda also includes seat-sharing discussions and setting up a secretariat, to enhance the coordination between all the member parties.
It is also speculated that more regional outfits will be joining the alliance during the two-day meeting.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary D Raja said that the primary objective of the INDIA alliance is “to fight collectively and defeat BJP in order to save the nation, save the Constitution, democracy, secularism federalism.”
He further said, “The country is in multiple crises and the country has to be liberated from the clutches of BJP-RSS combined. That is the primary objective of the opposition coming together… We are confident that BJP will be removed from power…”
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader MK Stalin leaves Chennai to attend the third meeting of the opposition bloc in Mumbai.
On her arrival in Mumbai, to a query on who will be the INDIA alliance PM candidate, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, “India will be our PM face. Our primary concern is to save the country.”