PM Baffled After Patna Opposition Meet, Trying To Breathe Life Into NDA: Congress

At least 26 political parties will attend the Opposition's two-day mega meeting in Bengaluru beginning on Monday to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The first mega Opposition meet was convened in Patna on June 23 by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on the two-day crucial deliberations of Opposition parties starting this evening, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suddenly remembered the NDA.

Claiming that PM Modi is baffled over the Opposition huddle, Ramesh said, "Attempts are being made to breathe new life into the NDA. There used to be no talk about NDA and suddenly in the past few days, we are hearing and reading about it. Suddenly, it was reported that an NDA meeting has been called for tomorrow. So NDA, which had become a ghost, attempts are now being made to breathe new life into it. This is a result of the meeting in Patna.

Congress general secretary organisation KC Venugopal said people will teach a lesson when the time comes to those who have totally failed in governance and cheated them with false promises. He said 26 Opposition parties are here to move forward unitedly and give a solution for people's problems and address the concerns over this "dictatorial government's actions".

"That is why we have come here. This is the second meeting. We will decide in this meeting what the course of action would be in future," Venugopal said. The Parliament session is also starting on July 20 and the opposition parties will chalk out the strategy for that also, he said.

"We are very sure that this is going to be a game changer for the Indian political scenario and we are very happy to see that after the Patna meeting those who were saying that 'we are very comfortable in defeating the entire Opposition alone', have now started meetings, that is the real success of opposition unity," Venugopal said.

Top leaders of opposition parties are likely to attend the two-day brainstorming session here to chalk out a strategy to unitedly fight the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.