Opposition decides to have pre-poll alliance, common minimum programme for LS polls

Moving forward on a united anti-BJP front for the Lok Sabha elections, top opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee on met at Sharad Pawar’s house on Wednesday. The meeting, hosted by NCP president Sharad Pawar at his residence, also saw Congress chief Gandhi and AAP's Arvind Kejriwal coming together for the first time, while West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu.

The leaders agreed to work together to prepare a common minimum programme to oust the Modi government and to consider forging a pre-poll alliance and said the entire opposition needs to come together due to "democratic compulsions to save India".