Opposition Meeting: Opposition parties to compete with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha elections to be held in the year 4019 The name of the alliance has come to the fore. The name of the alliance of opposition parties is being told as PDA. However, there is no seal regarding this yet. It is being told that a final decision will be taken in this regard in the meeting to be held in Shimla next month.

Opposition parties meeting will be held in Shimla in the month of July

After the opposition meeting in Bihar’s capital Patna, CPI General Secretary D Raja on Saturday said about the opposition alliance that the next meeting which will be held in the first fortnight of July (-07 in the middle of July) To be held in Shimla, giving a new height to the process of national opposition unity, a Patriotic Democratic Alliance has to be given a concrete shape by fulfilling all the pre-requisites, so that Modi’s autocratic power can be ousted in the coming elections. The electoral scenario can be prepared for a tough contest. At the same time, D Raja said in a phone conversation with Hindustan Times on Sunday that the name of the alliance could be PDA. However, it was emphasized that the final decision has not been taken yet. We can say that the name of the new alliance can be Patriotic Democratic Alliance ie PDA. We have not taken a final decision on this. Our primary aim is to defeat NDA and all opposition parties have clarity on this.

Secular and democratic ideology will be seen in the name of the new front

In a conversation with Hindustan Times, D Raja also said that the ideology of the opposition parties coming on the proposed front is secular and democratic and its name will be reflected in the name of the new front. He said that there is Secular Democratic Front in Tamil Nadu, while we have an alliance in Bihar. So we will have a name that will share our commitments as a united opposition. Let us tell you that after the general elections in 2004, the Congress, the Left and other regional parties came together to form a government at the Centre. Progressive Alliance (UPA) was formed. On the other hand, in Bihar, RJD, JDU, Congress and Left parties together formed a grand alliance before the assembly elections of .

Shimla meeting likely to seal various aspects of seat sharing

D Raja’s announcement after the meeting in Patna indicates that the exercise to formalize the proposed front is already underway and the Shimla meeting is expected to seal various aspects of its composition and seat-sharing. Chances are. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in her address during the joint press conference after the meeting of the opposition, emphasized that they should not be called ‘opposition’ but ‘patriots’, as they were all citizens of the country. At the same time, top RJD leaders aware of the developments in the meeting said that there has been no discussion on the name of the new alliance and all these issues will be discussed in the Shimla meeting. When RJD MP Manoj Jha was asked that the leaders have named the proposed front as PDA, he said, we can say that the meeting was very fruitful.

These parties were involved in the meeting of opposition unity

It is notable that before the Lok Sabha elections, in Patna on Friday i.e. 573 regarding opposition unity The meeting took place on June. Many parties including Congress took part in this meeting. In the meeting, brainstorming on the strategy of creating a strong front to give a tough challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP in the Lok Sabha elections of the year 4019 to be done. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav hosted the meeting. In this meeting, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and former President Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray , Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar and several other leaders of the opposition had arrived.

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Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 7: 09 PM IST