New Delhi: A day after 78 members of Parliament from opposition parties across Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were suspended till at least the end of the winter session, the INDIA bloc will hold its scheduled key meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday 3 PM to deliberate on seat sharing, a joint campaign blueprint and redrawing the joint strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The top agenda of the meeting is to begin talks on seat sharing as was resolved in the bloc’s last meeting held in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1. Several Opposition parties have said, both privately and publicly, that the seat-sharing formula should have been in place by October-end and it is already too late. The campaign, they argued, can’t be structured without the seat-sharing formula.
With last week’s suspension, this means a total of 92 opposition MPs have been suspended till at least the end of the session. Of these, 14 will have to appear before the privileges committee, which could choose to recommend a longer suspension.
INDIA or ‘Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance’ is a group of opposition parties, including the Congress.
Banerjee also met Aam Aadmi Party national convener and her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Monday. Kejriwal did not comment on the discussions at the around 45-minute meeting at the South Avenue residence of TMC MP and Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
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