INDIA bloc was held a crucial meeting in national capital Delhi on Tuesday where top leaders discussed their plans going forward for taking on the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) unitedly in the 2024.
News agency PTI reported that no final decision had been taken yet on INDIA bloc PM face. The report added Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is of view that “winning first is important". Kharge said, "I work for the downtrodden. Let's win first, then we will see. I don't seek anything."
In the meeting, INDIA bloc leaders deliberated on a blueprint for a joint campaign, seat-sharing arrangement and redrawing their strategy after the setback in the recent Assembly elections, which saw Congress lose to BJP in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh.
The meeting took place at the Ashoka Hotel here with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in attendance.
Mallikarjun Kharge for PM face
-After the INDIA bloc meeting MDMK (Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) MP Vaiko said, "West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal proposed Mallikarjun Kharge's name as INDIA bloc PM candidate."
INDIA Bloc seat-sharing within 20 days
-"Discussions were held clearly. Seat-sharing, mass contact program - all of these will begin within 20 days...All decisions will be taken within 3 weeks." said RJD MP Manoj Jha
Mallikarjun Kharge's press brief
Following the meeting Mallikarjun Kharge said, "Leaders of 28 political parties of the INDIA Alliance were present here in the fourth meeting held here today..."
-"We have passed a resolution that suspension is undemocratic. We will all have to fight to save democracy and all of us are ready to do that. We raised the issue of security breach in the Parliament. We have been saying for a long time that Union HM Amit Shah or PM Modi should come to the Parliament and speak in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha about the issue of Parliament security breach, but they are refusing to do so..." Kharge added
-Mallikarjun Kharge said "This is the first time 151 members of the parliament have been suspended in the country. We will fight against this, this is wrong...We have united to fight against this. We have decided to hold a protest against the suspension of MPs on 22nd December..."
INDIA bloc to stage protest against MPs suspension
-Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge informed that INDIA bloc members will stage a protest on 22 December in opposition to the suspension of the record number of MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
