West Bengal and Bihar Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee and Nitish Kumar, along with Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, met on Monday to discuss the strategy to show strength and oppose the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Banerjee walked out of the meeting saying, “We have to send a message that we are all together.”
after the meeting, Nitish Kumar “It was a very positive discussion. Opposition parties need to sit together and chalk out a strategy. We have discussed, especially about all parties coming together and making all preparations before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections,” he told reporters. “
“Whatever will be done next, will be done in the interest of the country. Those who are ruling now have nothing to do. They are just promoting themselves. Nothing is being done for the development of the country”, said the Bihar CM.
West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee said, “I have made only one request to Nitish Kumar. Jayaprakash ji’s movement started from Bihar. If we hold an all-party meeting in Bihar, we can decide where to go next.”
Mamta said, “But first we have to give this message that we are united. I have said earlier also that I have no objection. I want BJP to become zero. They became bigger heroes with media support and lies.” Are.” ,
After reaching Kolkata on Monday, Kumar and Yadav went to the state secretariat.NabannaWhere all three held a meeting with Banerjee.
The three leaders held a closed-door meeting to chalk out a strategy to fight the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
While the details of the discussion were scant with leaders preferring to speak on the broad consensus, news agency PTI quoted people familiar with the development as saying that both sides used the meeting to figure out how they would proceed in stitching together an alliance that would be workable ahead of the election.
Banerjee had held similar meetings last month with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and former Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy.
Kumar meets opposition parties to unite ahead of Lok Sabha polls Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and its chairman Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi earlier this month.
This meeting is being considered as a major step towards laying the foundation of the grand alliance ahead of the next year’s Lok Sabha elections.
Gandhi called the meeting with Kumar a “historic step” towards opposition unity and an “ideological battle”.
Former President of Congress Party [posted a picture with Kharge and JDU and RJD leaders, saying they are “standing together, will fight together for India”.
Opposition leaders have been critical of rising unemployment, the falling value of the rupee and rising prices as well as the spending on government advertisements.