INDIA bloc meeting to be held on this date, this is likely to be at top of agenda

 

New Delhi: The next meeting of the leaders of the INDIA bloc will be held on December 19 in the national capital.

Taking to 'X', Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The 4th meeting of the leaders of INDIA parties will be held on Tuesday, December 19th, 2023, in New Delhi at 3 p.m.

Earlier, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge called a meeting of the INDIA bloc leaders for December 6.

However, the meeting was canceled as key opposition leaders did not gave their confirmation of attending the meeting.

Seat sharing for LS polls likely to be at top of agenda

Seat sharing for the Lok Sabha polls, which are just four months away, is likely to be at the top of the agenda for the next INDIA bloc meeting and will be crucial for Congress, particularly as the party lost Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls, the Hindi heartland states.

The first meeting of the joint opposition convened in Patna on June 23 and the second meeting was held in Bengaluru on July 17-18. The third meeting happened in Mumbai on August 31-September 1.

Is it possible that I will not attend the meeting, asks Nitish

Meanwhile, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar said that he was down with fever so he could not make it to the mega meeting earlier due to be held on December 6.

"I want that work should progress. It was being said in the media reports that I won't attend the meeting. This is nonsense; I was down with a fever at that time. Is it possible that I will go not to the meeting? In the next meeting of the alliance, we should chalk out a plan for the future," said Nitish Kumar.