After the West Bengal Assembly elections, an important meeting of opposition parties is being held in Delhi on Monday. The constituents of the India Alliance of opposition parties are meeting to discuss the strategy to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and move forward unitedly. Many big leaders including Sonia Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav are attending the meeting. However, before the meeting, many such posters have also been put up in Delhi in which opposition leaders are seen attacking the alliance leaders.
This important meeting has been called in the Constitution Club of the capital Delhi. Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi along with Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge attended the meeting. Apart from these, top leaders of 23 opposition parties including Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee of Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction) participated.
On one hand, while an important meeting of opposition parties is taking place, before the meeting, many posters targeting Congress and opposition leader in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi were put up at many roundabouts in Delhi. These posters show the statements of opposition leaders (NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal) about Rahul and Congress.
Regarding the meeting, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh told yesterday on Sunday that 23 political parties will attend the meeting of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (India Alliance). He said that some political parties have expressed their inability to attend this important meeting due to their own reasons. Other important parties of the alliance, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) did not attend the meeting.
AAP has already publicly distanced itself from the alliance while DMK is unhappy with Congress’s decision to sever ties with it in Tamil Nadu and join the TVK-led government and hence did not attend the meeting.
The future strategy will be discussed in this meeting of India Alliance. Together, it will try to present itself as a united front to counter the Modi government on national issues before the upcoming state elections and the 2029 Lok Sabha elections. Before this, the last official meeting of India Alliance was held in June 2024. But TMC’s crushing defeat in West Bengal has forced the opposition alliance to remain united and counter BJP.
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