Bengaluru: Gearing up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has rallied assist from a complete of 25 events for the second Opposition Unity assembly in Karnataka’s Bengaluru starting on Monday.
Leaders of not less than 26 Opposition events will converge at a lodge in Bengaluru on July 17-18 as a part of their efforts to current a united entrance in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) authorities within the Centre. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, DK Shivakumar, has been deputed as in-charge to observe all of the preparations for the assembly. Preparations have been made for all of the opposition leaders to remain at a five-star lodge within the metropolis, occasion sources stated.
As per a tentative schedule, on Monday, Congress Common Secretary in-charge Communications, Jairam Ramesh, and Congress normal secretary, KC Venugopal will maintain a joint press convention at 11 am.
And all of the opposition leaders will begin arriving for the assembly within the afternoon.
An off-the-cuff assembly is scheduled at 6 pm after which there will likely be dinner at 8 pm. On July 18, the assembly will kick off at 11 am and can proceed until 4 pm.
Following this, there will likely be a press convention by which the marketing campaign technique for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls could also be introduced.
In line with sources, the title of the opposition alliance will likely be determined, and the widespread minimal program will likely be mentioned within the Bengaluru assembly.
Furthermore, a number of committees are anticipated to be fashioned which can maintain conferences to deliberate on varied issues that will come up within the alliance. Varied teams and sub-groups may additionally be fashioned, they stated.
Sources stated {that a} dialogue may additionally be held on the right way to discipline a standard opposition candidate on not less than 80 per cent of the Lok Sabha seats in opposition to the BJP, the right way to have alliances within the states and the right way to distribute tickets at key constituencies.
“Within the assembly, deliberations may even be held on Uniform Civil Code (UCC),” they added.
All bigwigs within the opposition, together with former Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, together with Rahul Gandhi are anticipated to attend the essential opposition assembly in Bengaluru.
The Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) additionally confirmed its presence on the assembly on Sunday. This got here after the Congress made its stand clear and stated that it’ll oppose the Centre’s ordinance on administrative companies in Delhi if a invoice is delivered to change the ordinance within the Parliament.
Earlier, through the Opposition assembly in Bihar’s Patna on June 23, a rift was seen between the AAP and the Congress, after the latter delayed its stand on the Centre’s ordinance.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to return for the opposition assembly as properly regardless of her leg harm, following former Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s name.
Earlier within the Patna assembly, 16 opposition events had been invited, and 15 of them attended the assembly. Aside from the Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), Janata Dal (United) (JDU), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP), Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist), Communist Social gathering of India, Samajwadi Social gathering, Jammu & Kashmir Nationwide Convention (NC), Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP), Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPIML), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal had been among the many record of invitees for the Patna assembly.
Rashtriya Lok Dal Social gathering chief Jayant Chowdhary who had earlier distanced himself from the Patna assembly is scheduled to attend the second assembly in Bengaluru on Monday.
Along with these, the Congress has invited 10 new events to the second opposition assembly in Bengaluru to extend its tally over the NDA. These embody Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Revolutionary Socialist Social gathering (RSP), Kongu Desa Makkal Katchi (KDMK), Ahead Bloc, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Kerala Congress (Joseph), Kerala Congress (Mani), Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) and Tamil Nadu’s Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK).
“Congress, the primary host of this two-day meet, is making an attempt to make it look grander than that referred to as by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on June 13,” sources identified. (ANI)
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