Before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, an important meeting of opposition parties trying to form a grand alliance against the BJP is being held in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18. Ahead of the meeting of opposition parties on Monday, Shiv Sena-Uddhav Thackeray faction-leader Sanjay Raut said, he would discuss a range of issues including Electronic Voting (EVM) machines and Lok Sabha seat-sharing.
Addressing a press conference here, Raut said, “The agenda of today’s meeting is to be one. In this, many issues including EVM machine, Lok Sabha seat sharing will be discussed and what will be the name of the front, it will also be decided. Raut further confirmed that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray would also attend the meeting in Karnataka’s Bengaluru.
Sanjay Raut gave information about the meeting in which he told that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Aditya Thackeray will also attend the meeting. This meeting will run in two sessions. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will attend today’s meeting. NCP chief Sharad Pawar will attend the meeting tomorrow. He said, “Today we will discuss national level issues in the meeting.”
Meanwhile, the Nationalist Congress Party’s Sharad Pawar faction said the NCP supremo will not attend the first day of the two-day joint opposition meeting, but will be present on Tuesday, according to spokesperson Mahesh Bharat Taapsee. Meanwhile, large posters and banners were seen on the Race Course Road in Bengaluru welcoming leaders of various opposition parties for the joint opposition meeting at the Taj West End hotel in the Karnataka capital.
