Mamata Banerjee; Opposition INDIA Alliance Meeting Update | Sharad Pawar Seat sharing may be discussed; Maximum focus on 5 states including UP-Bihar

The India Alliance meeting was held on 31 August and 1 September at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai. Leaders of 28 parties participated in it.

Opposition alliance INDIA has called the first meeting of the Coordination Committee in New Delhi today (September 13). In which all 14 members of the committee will be included. This meeting will be held at the Delhi residence of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar. In this, issues like seat sharing and deciding the names of candidates can be discussed.

The committee members have prepared the agenda, which will be finalized in the meeting. Decisions on joint rallies, joint publicity and social media strategy are to be taken in the meeting. According to sources, to prepare the roadmap for elections and campaign, the states have been divided into 4 categories. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Karnataka have been included in the first and most important category.

BJP has 212 seats in these 5 states, 180
The focus will be on the strength of the alliance and common strategy in the five states of the first category. There are 212 Lok Sabha seats in these five states, of which more than 180 are with the BJP. The political situation of these states has changed after 2019. In UP, SP was reduced to only 47 seats in the 2017 assembly elections. Its seats will increase to 111 in 2022.

In Bihar, JDU has distanced itself from BJP and formed the government with RJD. There is an opposition government in Jharkhand also. The government in Maharashtra is of NDA, yet the Sharad Pawar-Uddhav Thackeray duo is standing firmly with the Congress. At the same time, Congress is claiming to repeat the victory of Karnataka in the Lok Sabha elections.

Before the meeting, Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut met Sharad Pawar on Tuesday night. This meeting lasted for about 90 minutes.

Trouble may arise in fourth category states
In the second category, there are states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, where the fight is between Congress and BJP. The strategy for these will be made by combining national issues and problems of the state.

The third category includes Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana where those parties are in power which are not with NDA or India. The strategy here will be different.

The fourth category includes those states where a situation of competition can arise between the parties of the opposition alliance. Like- Punjab, Delhi, West Bengal, Kerala and Goa. The focus will be on the seat sharing formula for these states.

5 committees formed in the third meeting of INDIA
The third meeting of the opposition alliance was held in Mumbai on 31 August and 1 September. In this, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and leaders of 28 opposition parties participated. Five committees including coordination and campaign were formed in the meeting.

Campaign committee meeting held on 5 September
On September 5, the first meeting of INDIA’s Campaign Committee was held in Delhi under the leadership of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. In this, the preparations for the campaign before the assembly elections to be held in 5 states including Madhya Pradesh and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were discussed. Also, a strategy was made to corner the government in the special session of Parliament running from 18 to 22 September.

Fourth meeting of INDIA in Delhi or Bhopal
The fourth meeting of the opposition alliance Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) will be held in Delhi. However, there is talk of this meeting being held in Bhopal also.