Posters Featuring Kejriwal, Nitish Kumar, Mehbooba Mufti Come Up In Bengaluru Ahead Of Opposition Meeting

Top leaders from at least 24 political groups are expected to attend Congress's second Opposition unity meeting in Bengaluru.

Posters featuring leaders from opposition parties come up in Bengaluru ahead of Congress's second Opposition unity meeting ( Image Source :ANI )

Ahead of the Opposition meeting scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday, posters featuring several prominent leaders have come up in Bengaluru. Among the leaders featured on the posters include Jayant Singh, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Sitaram Yechury, Akhilesh Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray, Nitish Kumar. The poster also includes Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal, while his party decides whether to participate in the meeting or not. 

Top leaders from at least 24 political groups are expected to attend Congress's second Opposition unity meeting.

According to reports, eight new parties have joined the Opposition parties in their attempts to present a united front against the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

"After last month's mega Opposition meet in Bihar's Patna, top leaders of as many as 24 political parties will be attending the second meeting which is going to take place in Karnataka's Bengaluru," sources were quoted by ANI in its report.

#WATCH | Posters of opposition leaders including Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal put up in Bengaluru ahead of the opposition meeting.

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"Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Kongu Desa Makkal Katchi (KDMK), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), All India Forward Bloc, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Kerala Congress (Joseph), and Kerala Congress (Mani) are among the new political parties that will be joining the meeting," they said.

On Saturday, West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee stated that they will be attending the meeting. 

Meanwhile, Congress president and Rajya Sabha Leader Mallikarjun Kharge has asked senior opposition leaders to attend the next unity conference.

Only a week earlier, the Congress President, in a letter to major opposition party leaders, reminded them of their participation in an opposition conference invited by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on June 23 in Patna.