Ahead of the mega session scheduled to take place on the second day of Opposition leaders' meeting in Bengaluru today, posters and banners attacking Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were put up at Bengaluru's Chalukya Circle, Windsor Manor Bridge and on the Airport road near Hebbal, as reported by the news agency ANI. All the Opposition party leaders gathered for a dinner meeting at Bengaluru's Taj West End Hotel on Monday.
Opposition parties arrived in Karnataka's Bengaluru on Monday for brainstorming session to build a front against Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, who were seated next to each other, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, chief ministers M K Stalin, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal and Hemant Soren and RJD chief Lalu Prasad were among those who attended the dinner meeting where discussions were held to finalise the agenda for the formal talks starting Tuesday morning.
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar skipped the Monday meeting and would arrive on Tuesday along with daughter Supriya Sule.
The leaders sat in front of a huge banner with "United We Stand" slogan, which was also put on posters that dotted the streets of Bengaluru with pictures of opposition leaders.
Among others at the meeting hosted by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah were Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena-UBT), Farooq Abdullah (NC) and Mehbooba Mufti (PDP), besides Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), D Raja (CPI), Jayant Chaudhary (RLD) and MDMK MP Vaiko. A warm welcome was earlier accorded here to all the leaders on their arrival here for the two-day brain-storming session.
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