The ongoing meeting at Mallikarjun Khagde residence ends, Kejriwal leaves
New Delhi. The 5th meeting of India Block was held virtually on Saturday, after the meeting was over, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal left the residence of Delhi Congress National President.
In which senior leaders of 10 parties participated. Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee and Uddhav Thackeray did not attend the meeting. The progress of seat distribution was widely discussed in the meeting. If sources are to be believed, the parties present in the meeting proposed to make Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge the chairperson of the India Block. Its formal announcement can be made after discussion with Akhilesh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee. Congress requested leaders of all parties to join Rahul Gandhi’s upcoming ‘Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra’.
On behalf of JDU, party president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, former president Lalan Singh and Sanjay Jha participated. JDU leader Sanjay Jha said that during the virtual meeting, Congress proposed to make Chief Minister Nitish Kumar the convenor. On this, the Chief Minister of Bihar said that Congress should become the president of India Block. According to Sanjay Jha, Nitish Kumar has not yet given consent to become the coordinator. Nitish said in the meeting, ‘I have no interest in any post. We want the alliance to move forward on the ground. It is important that there should be unity among the parties involved in the alliance.
Nitish Kumar said that seat sharing is the biggest challenge. On the leaders of big parties not attending the meeting, Nitish said that this is not a good sign. Let us tell you that Mamata Banerjee did not attend the meeting citing pre-scheduled programs. However, according to sources, the reason behind not attending the meeting is said to be the displeasure of the TMC supremo. Because he does not agree on making Nitish the convenor of India Block. Before the meeting started, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary also made a sharp verbal attack on Mamata.
Adhir Ranjan said, ‘This woman (Mamata Banerjee) became a leader under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. How dishonest she (Mamata) is, how arrogant she is that she shows arrogance only to those who put her in politics. Earlier on Friday, leaders of Aam Aadmi Party and Congress held talks on seat-sharing in Delhi, in which a formula of 4-3 was decided. However, there will be another round of meetings to discuss which party will contest which seat and how many seats. Congress said that there is ‘very good chemistry’ between the two parties. Let us tell you that 28 opposition parties have come together under the banner of India Block to compete with the BJP and defeat it in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
