President of the Congress Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leader Rahul Gandhi will speak to party members at the Congress office in Patna, Bihar, before the Opposition leaders’ meeting, which is slated to take place on friday morning.
At 10 a.m. on friday, the two leaders of the Congress will speak to the party’s employees at the Patna headquarters. The two top party officials will be welcomed at the Sadakat Ashram office of the Bihar State Congress. Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, and other party officials are featured on posters and banners that hang throughout the office. Leaders of Opposition parties from across the country are set to meet in Patna to chalk out a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The Opposition picked Patna as a venue for its meeting as it represents the 1974 call of total revolution by Jayaprakash Narayan that toppled Indira Gandhi’s majority government.
The meeting will be hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with the aim to arrive at a consensus to forge a united Opposition front to take on the BJP.
As leaders of several opposition parties arrived in Patna on Thursday, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Chaudhary decided to skip the conclave due to a “pre-decided family program”. Chaudhary, however, hoped the meeting will be an “important milestone in the path of opposition unity”. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray are among the leaders expected to attend the meeting.
