Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 22: Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, met with Rahul Gandhi, the previous party leader, and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday. This was their second meeting in the past one and a half months and comes as efforts are being made to fortify the Opposition’s unity in order to defeat the BJP in the general elections of 2024.
At the Congress chief’s 10, Rajaji Marg residence, Kumar met Kharge and Gandhi. According to sources, the agenda for strengthening Opposition unity and a potential meeting of Opposition leaders in Patna were discussed at the meeting.
Lalan Singh, the leader of the JD(U), and K C Venugopal, the general secretary of the Congress (Organisation), were also present at the meeting, which was held the day after Kumar and his counterpart in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, called for opposition unity to fight the BJP.
In a significant show of opposition unity, Bihar Chief Minister Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah attended Siddaramaiah’s sworn-in ceremony as the chief minister of Karnataka on Saturday.
In an effort to bring the opposition together, Kumar has met with regional satraps and leaders of the opposition.
Late last month, Kumar made a hint that when the Karnataka assembly elections were completed, a gathering of opposition leaders might take place in Patna, and that matters linked to forming opposition unity are anticipated to be covered in detail at that meeting.
