Srinagar, July 17: Former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir – Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti – have reached Bengaluru to attend the joint opposition meeting for a brainstorming session to work out a strategy against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
One of the party leaders said that both Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, who also attended the joint meeting in Bihar last month, are in Bengaluru.
“They will attend the meeting for two days,” he said.
Notably, a two-day joint opposition party meeting in Bengaluru is the second such meeting that follows the mega Patna huddle convened on June 23 by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.
The leaders of around 26 opposition parties are expected to attend the brainstorming session and are likely to start working on a common minimum programme and announce a joint agitational plan to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar who skipped Day 1 of the big meet on Monday, will attend Day 2.
Meanwhile, to counter the opposition parties’ convergence on one platform, the BJP has also invited its old National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners to join together.
BJP chief JP Nadda said that the party’s mega show of strength in Delhi, which will be held parallelly with the Opposition’s unity meeting in Bengaluru, will be attended by 38 parties. (KNS)
