I.N.D.I.A going to meet soon!
The fourth I.N.D.I.A bloc meeting, which will be the first since the Congress lost in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, was announced by Congress national secretary Jairam Ramesh on Sunday. The meeting is scheduled for December 19. The Congress politician stated, “Judega Bharat, jeetega INDIA,” amid a shadow over opposition unity and party strife. According to a PTI report, the opposition camp intends to focus on the unity theme “Main nahi, hum” during this conference.
Many leaders to be missing from I.N.D.I.A meeting
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav expressed their incapacity to attend the meeting on the previously agreed date. MK Stalin, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was also in charge of the state’s response to Cyclone Michaung.
Despite the leaders’ absence from the December 6 meeting, a faction inside the alliance claimed there was no infighting. But when the Congress lost Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan and couldn’t overcome the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, the local leaders took a negative stance. Mamata Banerjee, the supremo of the Trinamool Party, stated that the Congress was not victorious but rather failed.
Seat sharing to be as considered an option
Seat-sharing is expected to be considered at this meeting, which will become a critical issue for the INDIA bloc. Prior to the Lok Sabha election of 2024, a unified election campaign may be discussed. Coordination committees were established during the 27 alliance partners’ most recent summit, which took place in Mumbai in September.
The Congress was waiting for a positive outcome in the three states, which could have bolstered their negotiating, which is why the seat-sharing negotiations between the INDIA partners came to a standstill. There was also no consensus among the opposition parties over seat-sharing in certain states.
Akhilesh Yadav, the chief of the Samajwadi Party, was displeased that Madhya Pradesh, where the party had 69 seats, did not have sear-sharing. The party did not even finish in second place for any of the seats, which led to it having the lowest vote share overall. Less than 1,000 votes were cast by the Samajwadi Party in 43 of the 69 seats it ran for.
