Tez express news – TN singh
Top leaders of over a dozen parties met here on Monday and reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen the opposition unity and defeat the BJP in the 2022 UP assembly polls and the 2024 general elections, according to sources.
The leaders came together at a dinner hosted by senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal where almost all the members of the ‘Group of 23’ who had written to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi seeking an organisational overhaul were also present.
“Such meetings should be organised more frequently to ensure that the unity is strengthened further. We have to defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh first in 2022 and then in general elections of 2024,” said an opposition leader, who was present during the meet.
Among the political heavyweights present were RJD’s Lalu Prasad Yadav, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav of Samajwadi Party, CPI-M’s Sitaram Yechury, CPI’s D Raja, Omar Abdullah of National Conference and Congress leader P Chidambaram.
Sanjay Raut of Shiv Sena, Sanjay Singh of AAP, TMC leaders Kalyan Banerjee and Derek O’Brien, BJD leaders Pinaki Mishra and Amar Patnaik, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva and TK Elangovan, RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary and leaders of TRS and TDS also attended the dinner meet.
Delhi: NCP chief Sharad Pawar, TMC MP Derek O’Brien, RJD chief Lalu Prasad, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva, RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Congress MPs Shashi Tharoor & Anand Sharma & other Opposition leaders arrive at Kapil Sibal’s residence for a meeting .
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