Prominent faces of the opposition party (INDIA).
– Photo: Amar Ujala
Expansion
It can be known on Saturday which path INDIA is on, the alliance of opposition parties formed against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre. The online meeting of the Indie Alliance is starting shortly at 11:30 am. Despite the meeting being online, the decided absence of Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is raising many questions. There can be some controversial issues in the meeting today because there is a huge fight over seat sharing. Nitish Kumar’s party Janata Dal United, the architect of opposition unity, needs a total of 17 seats in Bihar along with the 16 seats won in the last Lok Sabha elections, including the one lost seat, while the rest of the parties of the Indi Alliance along with the allies of the grand alliance running in Bihar are for this. Are not ready. Despite meeting Nitish, the Left parties have raised the alarm against this demand of JDU.
We sat face to face four times, what will happen today?
On June 23, on the call of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a meeting of opposition parties was held for the first time in Patna. Then Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had made the only demand from his side that the seats should be distributed as soon as possible. After this, meetings were held in Bengaluru on 17-18 July and Mumbai on 31 August-1 September. After this, Congress paid full attention to the assembly elections of five states, due to which the meeting was not held. After the crushing defeat in the elections, Congress itself scrambled for a meeting and finally a meeting was held in Delhi. Even in this meeting the issue of seat sharing was not resolved. Now virtual meetings are being held and the real issue is seat sharing. The foundation of the opposition alliance was laid in Bihar and the issue of seat sharing remained stuck here. JDU claims 17 out of 40 seats in Bihar, Congress wants 10-11 seats. Apart from this, leftist parties are also not ready for less than five-six seats. In such a situation, the largest party in the state assembly, Rashtriya Janata Dal, is in a dilemma.