Team News Riveting
New Delhi, September 13
Opposition bloc INDIA on Wednesday decided to hold their first joint public meeting in the poll-bound Madhya Pradesh.
The meeting, scheduled to be held in the first week of October, will be held in the state capital Bhopal. The move is seen as another step in its strategic plan to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The decision was taken at the first meeting of the coordination committee of the INDIA grouping which was held at the residence of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar here. The committee also decided that the opposition bloc’s leaders will hold joint public meetings in different parts of the country.
“The first public meeting will be held at Bhopal in the first week of October on the issue of rising prices, unemployment and corruption of the BJP government. The parties present in the meeting agreed to take up the issue of the caste census,” Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal said. Twelve leaders of the 14-member panel, the highest decision-making body of the alliance, were present at the meeting.
The Congress leader said the constituent parties would start seat-sharing talks “at the earliest.” The opposition alliance also said it would raise issues related to rising prices, unemployment, corruption and caste census.
Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal, who is a member of the panel, said Abhishek Banerjee of the TMC could not attend the meeting due to the summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The CPI(M) is yet to nominate its member.
