At least 16 opposition parties including DMK, AAP, JMM, Shiv Sena (UBT), CPI(M), CPI, Congress, and others have agreed to attend the meeting in Patna, spearheaded by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.
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A big meeting of the Opposition parties called to discuss unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, which was scheduled for June 12, is now likely to take place on June 23. Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar, who has been spearheading the campaign to unite all like-minded parties to forge an alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, had called the first meeting on June 12 in Patna. However, a source on Sunday, June 4, said that in view of the request by the Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), now the meeting has been fixed for June 23. Earlier, a source had said that like Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader MK Stalin, Congress also made a request to the Bihar Chief Minister to postpone the meeting to a further date. However, being the first meeting of the opposition parties, Congress accepted the request to join the meeting on June 12. Thus, some senior party leaders would join the meeting instead of the top leadership, the source said. Though, with more requests from other opposition parties and leaders like Sitaram Yechury, the meeting will now take place on June 23 in Patna, the source added. Nitish Kumar, along with his deputy and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav had already met Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in April as well as in May. Besides the Congress leaders, the Janata Dal-United leader has also met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Naveen Patnaik, former Maharashtra chief minister and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray and others in a bid to bring all the like-minded parties together. According to sources, at least 16 opposition parties like the DMK, AAP, JMM, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray), CPI(M), CPI, Congress, All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), Samajwadi Party, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and others have given their consent to attend the meeting to be held on June 12 in Patna, will now be sent the fresh date of the meeting. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */ Sign up to get Daily Wrap in your inbox * indicates required Email Address * First Name (function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email';fnames[1]='FNAME';ftypes[1]='text';fnames[2]='LNAME';ftypes[2]='text';}(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);
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