Opposition Meeting LIVE: This Selfish Alliance Wants To Deprive India Of Economic Development, Says Smriti Irani
Opposition Parties Meeting Live Updates: Please follow this space for all the breaking news and latest updates pertaining to the meeting of non-BJP parties in Patna.
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Opposition Parties Meeting Live Updates: Hello and welcome to our live blog on the meeting of non-BJP parties in Patna. Please follow this space for all the breaking news and the latest updates pertaining to the same. The Friday meeting of opposition parties has been called by Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar to chalk out a joint strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Bihar Chief Minister is hopeful of uniting the Opposition parties ahead of the Lok Sabha polls 2024, the job will prove to be a Herculean task.
In the latest development, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to opposition parties to discuss the Centre's ordinance on the control of administrative services in the national capital at the June 23 meeting of non-BJP parties in Patna while asserting that similar ordinances can be brought for other states too.
Kejriwal, who is also the AAP national convener, stressed the first thing to be discussed in the meeting should revolve around defeating the bill related to the Centre's ordinance in the Rajya Sabha.
According to news agency PTI, the Opposition meeting in Patna will not discuss a possible prime ministerial candidate and will focus on deciding the common agenda for the parties to work on in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections.
It cited sources from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) as saying that there are no talks on the lines of picking a prime ministerial candidate. "The meeting is the first step. A common agenda will be finalised," said an RJD leader who did not want to be named, as quoted by PTI.
At least 18 "like-minded" Opposition parties are likely to attend the meeting on June 23. All the "like-minded" Opposition leaders are hoping that this time they will be able to get a head start on the process of alliance formation, unlike last time.
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#WATCH | Political parties which never saw eye to eye came together today- this selfish alliance came wants to deprive India of economic development, says Union Minister BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani on the Opposition meeting. pic.twitter.com/Oy2hbx5HwP
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
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VIDEO | "The way our constitution, secularism and democracy is being attacked, it started in Jammu and Kashmir. And, now it's happening across the country," says former Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti in joint presser after Patna opposition meeting.#OppositionMeeting pic.twitter.com/w0faor1SWC
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) June 23, 2023