Next meeting of opposition parties not in Shimla, but in Bengaluru: Sharad Pawar
New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the next opposition meeting will be held in Bengaluru on July 13 and 14. In the first meeting of opposition parties held in Patna on June 23, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had announced that the next meeting to chalk out a united front strategy against the BJP would be held in Shimla.
A meeting of 16 opposition parties was held in Patna to prepare a roadmap to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The four-hour-long meeting in Patna ended with a heated exchange of words between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The AAP had said it would not attend any meeting of opposition parties in which the Congress was also present. It will do so until the Congress publicly condemns the central government’s controversial ordinance on the control of administrative services in Delhi.
Sharad Pawar had recently said that there was no discussion about the “prime minister’s post” in the Patna meeting.
The NCP chief said the meeting focused on issues like price rise, unemployment and “deliberate attempts” to fuel communal violence in some parts of the country.