All Eyes On Opposition Meet Of 12th June?

Almost all leaders of political parties are convinced that it is not possible to defeat BJP alone source says. In the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections opposition parties tried to contest elections after allying with like-minded parties but they could not reach an agreement to put one combined candidate against BJP candidate source says. The division of votes helped BJP to win 303 seats with 37.36% votes in 2019 source says. To consolidate the position and avoid division of votes this time all opposition parties are trying to put one against one candidate source says. Nitish Kumar, Mamta Banerjee, Kejriwal and Chandrasekhar Rao and others are trying to forge unity amongst all opposition parties source says. To discuss the further details a non-BJP party meeting has been convened by Nitish Kumar on 12 th at Patna source says. Congress president Kharge and senior leader of the party Rahul Gandhi have shown an inability to attend due to pre-occupation but the party's high command has confirmed that the party representative will attend the meeting probably to be chaired by Nitish Kumar source says. AAP, TMC, NCP, JMM, DMK, SP, CPI(M), CPI and another total of 18 parties have confirmed to participate source says. This first meeting is called to draw basic agreeable points to be followed by all parties in the 2024 parliamentary elections source says. Many more meetings are likely to be held to finalize common agenda for parties source says. The opposition has already earmarked 475 seats for one to one fight in the coming elections source says. The actual charter to follow will come out only after 12 th meeting source says.