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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal said seat sharing between INDIA alliance parties will take place across the country. (File photo: PTI)

Leaders of at least 26 opposition parties, under the umbrella of the INDIA alliance, on Thursday held talks in Mumbai to chart out a concrete roadmap and evolve a structure for cooperation among the alliance partners to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

All top opposition leaders including Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray, and Arvind Kejriwal among others were present at the “informal” huddle at Grand Hyatt hotel here. Key decisions about the alliance’s future strategy will be taken at the formal meeting on Friday. Thackeray hosted a dinner for the INDIA leaders after the meeting.

This is the third meeting of the opposition’s alliance. The first meeting of the bloc was held in June in Patna, while the second gathering in Bengaluru in July finalised its name — Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA).

INDIA leaders will meet again on Friday. Uddhav Thackeray said INDIA alliance parties will hold a press conference on Friday.

WHAT INDIA LEADERS DISCUSSED?

According to CNN-News18 sources, names of INDIA convenor and committees will be finalised at Friday huddle. The opposition leaders discussed why the government called a five-day special session of Parliament. They deliberated on whether the government is planning to club Lok Sabha and state assembly polls and that the alliance should be prepared for it.

“The parties also decided that some seats must be earmarked and whether parties should have common rallies. At the meeting, the Samajwadi party highlighted the importance of Uttar Pradesh in the polls and discussed the use of central agencies. Names of convenor and committees will be finalise tomorrow,” said sources.

INDIA SEAT SHARING FORMULA FOR 2024

Sources also told CNN-News18 that leaders discussed the need for surveys to be conducted at the regional level. They said the initial discussion (at Friday’s meeting) will be on regional seat distribution. Sources said discussion for Lok Sabha seat sharing should be done at the local level as per local combinations and strengths.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal said seat sharing between INDIA alliance parties will take place across the country.

WHAT INDIA LEADERS SAID?

National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah said there should be a Convener and a Working Group. “We can’t hold a meeting every two months like this. I think if meetings are held more regularly by forming a Working Group, it will definitely be effective,” he said.

When asked who will be the PM face of INDIA alliance, Abdullah said, “If you ask me, I don’t think we need to announce any Prime Ministerial face. Let the elections take place, let us get a majority – the decision will be made after that.”

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi Opposition will formulate a strategy in the Mumbai meet which will help them win in 2024 polls. “It’s a historic day and a new history is being created today… We will work and will formulate a strategy which will help us to win in 2024…,” Chaturvedi said.

Source: https://www.news18.com/politics/india-alliance-mumbai-meeting-opposition-bloc-congress-ncp-tmc-lok-sabha-election-2024-livenews-8559004.html

The BJP-led NDA is likely to win 306 seats with a 43 per cent vote share, while the INDIA alliance is projected to get 193 with 41 per cent vote share.

The BJP, on its own, is likely to cross the majority mark with 287 seats, 13 down from its 303 in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to return for the third consecutive term in 2024 despite the INDIA alliance, according to a poll by India Today-CVoter Mood of the Nation. The BJP-led NDA is likely to win 306 seats with a 43 per cent vote share, while the INDIA alliance is projected to get 193 with 41 per cent vote share. The BJP, on its own, is likely to cross the majority mark with 287 seats, 13 down from its 303 in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In 2019, the NDA had won 33 seats.

The BJP’s vote share is likely to increase by 2 per cent to nearly 39 per cent. The Congress, too, will increase its vote share by two per cent to 22 per cent but its gap with the BJP is nearly 17 per cent. The vote share of other parties is likely to come down from 43 per cent to 39. The Congress is projected to increase its vote share by 22 seats to 74, which would be its highest since 2014. The other parties are likely to bag 182 seats.

The INDIA bloc is likely to gain in West Bengal and Bihar. In West Bengal, the alliance is expected to win 24 seats while NDA is projected to bag 18 – the same number of seats the saffron party had won in 2019. In Bihar, the INDIA alliance is likely to win 26 seats while NDA may bag 14. In the last election, the NDA had swept the state by winning 39 of 40 seats.

The poll shows that the BJP may repeat its 2014 performance in Uttar Pradesh and bag 72 of 80 seats with nearly 49 per cent vote share. The INDIA alliance, which also has Samajwadi Party, may win only 8 seats with 38 per cent vote share.

Source: https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/story/pm-modi-likely-to-win-third-term-in-2024-despite-india-alliance-mood-of-the-nation-poll-395494-2023-08-24

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