Patna: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar said on Friday that the opposition parties had a “good meeting” in Patna and it has been decided to fight the elections together.
Kumar, who had convened the mega meeting of opposition parties, said that another meeting of opposition parties will be held soon.
‘ “It was a good meeting where it has been decided to fight the elections together. Another meeting will be held soon,” Kumar said at a joint press conference in the presence of other opposition leaders including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi,’ said Asian News International (ANI).
He also slammed the performance of the BJP-led central government.
The meeting had been called to forge opposition unity to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
During the meeting, Nitish Kumar was projected as the national convenor of the opposition alliance and every leader agreed to it.
‘The leaders of the opposition parties, after the mega meeting here, jointly held a press conference where they said that they also decided to hold another meeting in Shimla on July 10 or 12 to decide the seats on which they would contest in the Lok Sabha election,’ Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) stated.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that his party has been working against the party of Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena) in Maharashtra for the last 25 years but now come together to save the Constitution and the country.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said: “The people’s movement started from the soil of Patna. We will fight together. The Modi government has become a dictatorship in the country. The BJP and the RSS are attacking the democratic base of our country. This is a fight of ideology and we are standing by the opposition parties to fight against the BJP. We will work together and save our common ideology.”
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