Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut took a dig at the BJP on Wednesday. He said that the ruling party remembered the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) only when 26 opposition parties came together to form the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). Talking to reporters, he said that the next meeting of the ‘Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance’ formed to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections would be held in Mumbai. He insisted that ‘India’ would defeat the dictatorship in the country.
Raut said, now you remember the NDA only when we 26 opposition parties came together in Patna and Bengaluru as ‘INDIA’ for the country. Your lotus (BJP’s party symbol) started blooming only after the meetings. He said that ‘INDIA’ will decide who will be the next prime minister.
At the same time, leaders of 38 parties involved in NDA met in Delhi on Tuesday. A meeting of 26 opposition parties in Bengaluru on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution to name their alliance as ‘INDIA’, which also included the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT). The original suggestion was to call it the “Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance”, but the word “democratic” was replaced with “developmental” after some leaders said it sounded too similar to the ruling NDA.
