INDIA Bloc Meeting Postponed After Major Leaders Decided To Skip
The I.N.D.I.A bloc meeting, which was scheduled to be held on Wednesday, December 6, has been reportedly postponed due to the non-availability of top leaders. Earlier, several leaders, including Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, had expressed their unavailability to attend the meeting on December 6.
A coordination meeting of Parliamentary Party leaders of India Alliance will be at 6 pm on December 6th, 2023 at the residence of Congress President Sh. Mallikarjun Kharge.
Thereafter meeting of Party Presidents/ Heads of the India Alliance will be scheduled in third week of…
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The Indian Express, citing the Congress party, reported that the meeting of the INDIA allies will be rescheduled to the third week of December at a date convenient to all leaders. Earlier on December 3, Congress’s national president, Mallikarjun Kharge, had invited all the INDIA bloc members to attend the meeting. The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), consisting of 28 political parties, is an opposition front constituted under the leadership of the Indian National Congress to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee informed that she would skip the meeting as she would be visiting North Bengal from December 6 to December 11. “I don”t know, I have no information so I kept a programme in North Bengal,” ANI quoted Mamata Banerjee as saying on December 4. The mega Opposition alliance has held three meetings so far. The first meeting was held on June 23 in Bihar”s Patna, and the second meeting was held in Bengaluru on July 17–18. The alliance convened its third meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1.
