Anil Desai, a Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP, announced on Thursday that two additional regional parties with headquarters in Maharashtra will join the opposition alliance, INDIA, ahead of its third meeting, which will take place in Mumbai.
Anil Desai said, “Two more regional parties in Maharashtra will join INDIA, taking the total number of parties in the alliance from 26 to 28.”
Congress MP Nasir Hussain, too, claimed that 7 big and small parties were in touch with them.
“7 more big and small parties are in touch with us and we are considering bringing them on board. We will arrive at a decision and make a formal announcement shortly,” Desai told.
We believe in a parliamentary democracy, not a presidential form of government, the Sena (UBT) MP said when asked who would represent the Opposition alliance as prime minister. The 26-member Opposition bloc, INDIA, will hold its third meeting in Mumbai on Thursday. Picking up where they left off in their last gathering in Bengaluru, they will continue to lay out a more comprehensive plan of attack against the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre.