Sharad Pawar skipping important Bengaluru conclave

The Opposition parties are all set to meet in Karnataka’s Bengaluru today and tomorrow to chalk out a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The invites for the meeting — conveyed by Congress — were sent out by the party’s president Mallikarjun Kharge. He invited all the major as well as smaller parties to attend the meet and put up a united front against the BJP.

A total of 24 parties is set to attend the meeting.

This is the second Opposition meeting since the first one was held at Patna on June 23 this year. The meeting was attended by 15 parties in total.

Maharashtra’s former Chief Minister Sharad Pawar is likely to skip the opposition meeting. He might be meeting party MLA’s in Mumbai.

Previously, the split in Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and his nephew Ajit Pawar’s switch to the Eknath Shinde-BJP coalition in Maharashtra, was a major development around the issue.

However, parties like TMC and the Congress have shown their support for Sharad Pawar and have said that the opposition’s unity has been further strengthened.

Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi is also expected to attend a dinner meeting on July 17. She might also attend the more formal meeting on the second day, with in detail strategizing plans.

With inputs from News18

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