Next INDIA Meeting In Mumbai After Aug 15 Or In First Week Of Sept: Maharashtra Congress Chief
Congress leaders met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to discuss preparations for the next mega Opposition meeting slated to take place in Mumbai.
Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole on Friday said that the next mega meeting of the Opposition bloc will take place after August 15 or in the first week of September in Mumbai. The first meeting of the opposition parties was hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) in Patna, and the second was held in Bengaluru and was hosted by the Congress. The third huddle will be the first opposition meeting to be held in a state where no member of the INDIA bloc is in power.
"The next meeting of INDIA (opposition alliance) will be held in Mumbai after August 15 or in the first week of September. The meeting will be hosted by MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi)," Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole said, as quoted by news agency PTI.
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He said Congress leaders met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to discuss preparations for the meeting.
This statement comes after news agency PTI cited sources as saying that the leaders of the opposition parties will be holding their third mega meeting in Mumbai on August 25 and 26. The huddle of the 26-member INDIA coalition will be hosted jointly by the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the NCP's Sharad Pawar faction, with support from the Congress, the sources told PTI.
INDIA bloc parties are calling the Mumbai meet as the summit of these huddles where crucial discussions regarding seat sharing are expected to be taken up, PTI's report mentioned. The PTI sources said that the coordination committee has been finalised that will have 11 members. They added that it will have one member each from the Congress, TMC, DMK, AAP, JD(U), RJD, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Samajwadi Party and the CPI(M), as per PTI.
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The smaller parties in the coalition will not get a berth on the committee, as per the report.
Apart from this, the coalition is also likely to announce the composition of committees for communication, the 2024 general election campaign, and another panel to coordinate joint protests and rallies in the run-up to the polls. Sources told PTI that a joint secretariat for smooth coordination among the parties will also be announced soon.
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