India Alliance to meet today after three months, Share of seats, category of strategy on the agenda – Firstpost

Barely one day after a record number of opposition deputies was suspended from the two chambers of Parliament, the Alliance of India will meet Tuesday after three and a half months in Delhi.

During the meeting, the regional parties should demand that the sharing of the seats be finalized as soon as possible so that they can start choosing candidates and starting campaign rallies. The caste census is also likely to be on the agenda, the immediate challenge for the India Alliance is to create a consensus on the choice of a manager.

The regional parties expect the congress to make up the main program of Reunion. For their part, these parties will submit their suggestions to redesign the joint strategy to face the BJP, which beat the congress during the recent assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

The regional parties had previously expressed a misfortune about the activities of the Alliance which stop when the Congress was preparing for the Assembly elections in five states. “The evolution of a basic positive program, the sharing of seats and a program to organize joint gatherings are among the main discussion points,” a chief of the opposition said on Monday.

The members of the block will discuss an alternative positive program to counter the BJP and the Bloc goes ahead with the theme of the unit “Main Nahin, hum (not me, we)”, declared a member of the congress of the Congress of Developments.

It was one of the slogans of the Congress for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections who saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in power for the first time.

A leader of the Samajwadi (SP) party said: “The SP will require a discussion on the sharing of seats. Once the distribution of the seats is completed, the parties can start preparations for the selection of candidates, the strengthening of their organization and coordination with the local unit of the Allies. »»

The deputy for the Bihar CM Tejashwi Yadav from the RJD said that the committees of the alliance formed earlier had worked behind the scenes to prepare for the polls.

The chief minister of Western Bengal and President of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Mamata Banerjee, has in the process of expressing the confidence that the members of the Alliance would eliminate all the differences, including on the question of the sharing of the seats. She told journalists in New Delhi that three alliance was “very possible” in Western Bengal between the TMC, the Congress and the Left.

Earlier Monday, Delhi’s chief minister and the national leader of the Aam Aadmi (AAP) party, Arvind Kejriwal, met Mamata Banerjee and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Supremo Uddhav Thackeray to discuss the political situation, before the elections before by Lok Sabha for the following year.

After meeting the Chief Minister of Western Bengal, Kejriwal said in an article on X that the country’s “political problems” had been discussed during the courtesy meeting.

Kejriwal will attend the Alliance meeting on Tuesday, a person aware of development said.

The Delhi chief minister on X also shared photos of his meeting with Uddhav Thackeray and other leaders of Shiv Sena (UBT), saying that he had the chance to welcome them at his residence.

The meeting of the Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance (India) is expected to be held on Tuesday at the Ashoka hotel in New Delhi.

The meeting proposed by the Alliance on December 6 was postponed after several senior leaders, including Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar and the leader of the Samajwadi party, Akhilesh Yadav, expressed their inability to attend the meeting.

The Alliance of India held its first meeting in Patna on June 23, the second meeting in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18 and the third in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1.