Opposition Meet In Patna: Leaders of opposition parties across the country are meeting in Patna today to chalk out a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The meeting is being hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
Discussions are on to chalk out a joint strategy to take on the BJP in the next year’s Lok Sabha elections. More than 15 opposition parties are participating in the meeting. The opposition is said to have chosen Patna for the meeting because the city represents Jayaprakash Narayan’s call for a total revolution in 1974 that toppled Indira Gandhi’s majority government.
Opposition Meet In Patna Live Updates…
- Opposition meeting in Patna including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren are included.
#WATCH | Opposition leaders’ meeting to chalk out a joint strategy to take on BJP in next year’s Lok Sabha elections, underway in Bihar’s Patna
More than 15 opposition parties are attending the meeting. pic.twitter.com/d9qRfvOdVj
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- Regarding the opposition meeting, West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said that it is a union of familyism, nepotism and corrupt people. It is not going to matter, next time PM Modi will cross the 400 mark.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah has taken a jibe at the Opposition meeting. He said that photo session is going on in Patna today. They (Opposition) want to challenge PM Modi and NDA. I want to tell them that in 2024 PM Modi will become PM by winning more than 300 seats.
#WATCH | Union Home Minister Amit Shah takes a jibe at the #OppositionMeeting
Today a photo session is underway in Patna. They (opposition) want to challenge PM Modi and NDA. I want to tell them that in 2024 PM Modi will become PM by winning more than 300 seats, says HM Shah pic.twitter.com/YmfJvR4Uv3
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- The meeting of opposition leaders has started in Patna to chalk out a joint strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. More than 15 opposition parties are participating in the meeting.
Bihar | Opposition leaders’ meeting to chalk out a joint strategy to take on BJP in next year’s Lok Sabha elections, begins in Patna
More than 15 opposition parties are attending the meeting. pic.twitter.com/absFUpmARO
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- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha arrives in Bihar’s Patna to attend a meeting of opposition leaders.
#WATCH | Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha reaches Bihar’s Patna to attend the Opposition leaders’ meeting
More than 15 opposition parties are meeting today to chalk out a joint strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. pic.twitter.com/r1qWibztFR
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- Samajwadi Party (SP) President and former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav reached Patna in Bihar to attend the meeting of opposition leaders. Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray reached Patna in Bihar to attend the meeting of opposition leaders.
#WATCH | Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray reaches Bihar’s Patna to attend the Opposition leaders’ meeting pic.twitter.com/nHzrUWxT2C
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- Regarding the meeting of the opposition, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said that there are many contenders for the post of PM in the opposition… It will not make any difference whether the opposition fights together or not. In 2024, the public will make PM Modi the Prime Minister again.
- Addressing party workers in Bihar, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that this is a fight of ideologies. BJP wants to divide but Congress wants to unite the country.
- Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury arrives in Bihar’s Patna to attend the meeting of opposition leaders. Over 15 opposition parties are meeting today to chalk out a joint strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
#WATCH | Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury reaches Bihar’s Patna to attend the Opposition leaders’ meeting
More than 15 opposition parties are meeting today to chalk out a joint strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. pic.twitter.com/QoKMTbkeIm
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge told party workers in Bihar’s Patna, if we win Bihar, we can win across the country.
#WATCH | If we win Bihar, then we can win across the country, says Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to party workers in Bihar’s Patna pic.twitter.com/LW0BE4mxrB
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- Congress leaders welcomed party president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi on their arrival in Bihar’s Patna to attend a meeting of opposition leaders.
#WATCH | Congress leaders welcome party president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi as they arrive in Bihar’s Patna to attend the Opposition leaders’ meeting pic.twitter.com/vuSA3oj304
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar reached Patna in Bihar to attend the meeting of opposition leaders.
#WATCH | Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar reaches Bihar’s Patna to attend the Opposition leaders’ meeting pic.twitter.com/H8f9UtCOiK
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi have reached Patna in Bihar for a meeting of opposition leaders. Both the leaders were welcomed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
#WATCH | Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi arrive in Bihar’s Patna for the Opposition leaders’ meeting pic.twitter.com/O51rWBsKaw
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- Bihar: JMM supporters gather outside Patna airport to welcome Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who will be arriving here later today to attend the Opposition meeting.
#WATCH | Bihar: JMM supporters gather outside Patna airport to welcome Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren who will arrive here to attend #OppositionMeeting later today. pic.twitter.com/zdefMN0myG
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad took a jibe at the opposition meeting and said that Nitish Kumar is preparing a procession in Patna for the 2024 elections, but who is the bridegroom? Everyone is calling themselves PM contenders.
#WATCH , “Nitish Kumar is decorating the wedding procession for the 2024 elections in Patna, but who is the groom ( PM contender). Everyone is calling… pic.twitter.com/4RfIVLsVkF
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that we all together want to fight against BJP and want to throw BJP out of this country. A good opinion will be formed after going there. Rahul Gandhi had already initiated the opposition unity and this meeting is a part of that.
- National President of Jan Adhikar Party Pappu Yadav said that this is not a meeting of the country’s opposition, this meeting is for the lives and safety of 140 crore people of the country. The meeting is against always looking at Bihar with disrespect and is for a good start…Congress is the only party to defeat BJP, no one can defeat BJP in the country apart from Congress.
#WATCH This is not a meeting of the country’s opposition, this meeting is for the lives and safety of 140 crore people of the country. The meeting is against always looking at Bihar with disrespect and is for a good start…Congress is the only party to defeat BJP, no one apart from Congress can defeat BJP in the country… pic.twitter.com/nZ2isZG0Ha
— ANI_HindiNews (@AHindinews) June 23, 2023
- NCP chief Sharad Pawar left for Patna along with NCP working president Supriya Sule to attend the opposition meeting in Patna.
- NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that we are meeting to discuss some important issues of the country and decide the future strategy. Manipur issue will also be discussed in this meeting.
- Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray left for Patna to attend the opposition meeting to be held in Patna.
- RJD leader Alok Kumar Mehta said that this meeting is a part of India’s democratic system. Democracy gets strengthened when the opposition unites… Whenever the opposition has fought, it has fought under collective leadership. When the elections are held then our leader will be elected.
#WATCH | Patna: This meeting is part of India’s democratic system. Democracy gets strengthened when the opposition unites… Whenever the opposition has fought, it has fought under collective leadership. Our leader will be chosen when elections are held: RJD leader Alok Kumar… pic.twitter.com/9uPMMGlRjV
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- On the opposition meeting to be held in Patna, Leader of Opposition Vijay Kumar Sinha said that if these were the people who formed the government, then why could they never form the government in Bihar on their own? The person who has never been given mandate by the people of Bihar, what is his status to form and spoil the government?
#WATCH | Vijay Kumar Sinha, Bihar LoP takes a jibe at the #OppositionMeeting
“They have forgotten that Bihar never supports corrupt people. Congress was defeated, then RJD (Lalu Yadav) lost its power, and now it’s time for Nitish Kumar. He will lose the CM post and will get… pic.twitter.com/oarQ3dvtM2
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
- BJP MLA Jeevesh Mishra said that in this meeting it should be decided that who is the real groom among all the grooms who have come to Patna in the name of opposition unity. Also decide who will attend the procession. Everyone here is suffering from their own disease.
#WATCH | First they should decide who is the actual PM contender among all those who are coming for the opposition meeting in Patna…Everyone is coming here to solve their own problems: BJP MLA Jeevesh Mishra, Patna pic.twitter.com/KrP9Y0EFIF
— ANI (@ANI) June 23, 2023
These leaders reached Patna before the meeting
Leaders who reached Patna ahead of the meeting include West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti. The meeting has been called by Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar and will be attended by leaders of opposition parties to the BJP.
On reaching Patna, Mamata Banerjee met Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch and former Bihar CM Lalu Yadav and his son and state Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav.
What did Mamta Banerjee say after the meeting?
Mamta Banerjee said that it was wonderful to meet Lalu Prasad Yadav. He is a senior leader. Unfortunately, he was imprisoned for so many days and then hospitalized for a long time. Nice to see them. I cannot share the details of the meeting right now. All I can say is that we have come here to fight collectively like a family.
After meeting the RJD supremo, Mamta Banerjee met Nitish Kumar at Patna Circuit House. Kejriwal and Mann also met Nitish Kumar.
BJP taunted about the meeting
Taking a jibe at the opposition over the mega meeting, former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi said all opposition leaders accused of corruption have come together fearing arrest when Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns for a third term after the Lok Sabha next year. He said that the RJD which does not have a single seat in the Lok Sabha is challenging the party which has 303 seats.
He said that the party (RJD) which does not have a single seat in the Lok Sabha is challenging the party (BJP) which has 303 seats, Bihar will give 40 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats to PM Modi. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray are among the leaders attending the meeting.