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INDIA Alliance Meeting Mumbai Highlights: Sonia Gandhi Arrives With Son Rahul

Opposition Meeting in Mumbai LIVE: Among the top agendas at the meeting will be choosing a logo for the alliance and also setting up a committee to enhance the coordination between all the member parties.

INDIA Alliance Meeting Mumbai Highlights: Sonia Gandhi Arrives With Son Rahul

INDIA Alliance Meet Live: They will meet for the third time, they earlier met in Bengaluru.

To take on the ruling BJP-led NDA in the upcoming General Elections, the Opposition's INDIA alliance will be meeting in Mumbai today. Around 63 representatives from 28 parties will be meeting today and tomorrow at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai.

Among the top agendas at the meeting will be choosing a logo for the alliance and also setting up a committee to enhance the coordination between all the member parties.

Several chief ministers and senior leaders including Mamata Banerjee and Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad have already arrived in Mumbai.

In their second meeting in Bengaluru, the Opposition alliance finalised the name I-N-D-I-A -- the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance for the bloc that will take on the BJP-led NDA.

Here are the Highlights On INDIA Bloc Meeting:

Aug 31, 2023 20:41 (IST)
INDIA alliance to finalize on seat sharing by September 30
Aug 31, 2023 18:31 (IST)
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren Reaches Mumbai For INDIA Meeting

Aug 31, 2023 18:15 (IST)
INDIA Alliance Meeting In Mumbai Live: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti said the youth are the strength of the country. "Leaders from Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh worked to give a direction to the youth and set up institutions like JNU, IIMs, ISRO," said.
Aug 31, 2023 18:14 (IST)
At INDIA Alliance Meet, We Will Work On Evolving Common Programme: Lalu Yadav

"The Centre has failed to address the issues of poverty, unemployment, and welfare of farmers. At the INDIA alliance meeting, we will work on evolving a common programme. We have to contest elections one-on-one (put up common candidates against the BJP)," the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Yadav said.

"People wanted a proper alternative and the INDIA alliance is offering it, Tejashwi Yadav said, adding that people will give a befitting reply to "those who divide society." 

"People will not forgive us if we don't meet their expectations," the RJD leader added.
Aug 31, 2023 17:26 (IST)
Aug 31, 2023 17:19 (IST)
In Pics: Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Congress Chief Arrive At Meeting Venue
Aug 31, 2023 16:04 (IST)
"BJP Rattled, It Didn't Expect So Many Parties To Unite": Congress Leader

INDIA Alliance Meeting Live: Congress leader Milind Deora on Thursday hit back at the BJP over its criticism of the INDIA bloc meeting here, saying the party was "rattled" as it never expected so many parties from numerous states to come together.

Milind Deora, who is working closely in organising the Mumbai meeting of the opposition alliance taking place on Thursday and Friday, said he is hopeful that there will be an expansion of the bloc.
Aug 31, 2023 15:51 (IST)
INDIA Alliance Meeting Live: Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul arrive at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai
Aug 31, 2023 15:48 (IST)
INDIA Alliance Meeting Live: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav visited the Siddhivinayak Temple along with his father Lalu Yadav in Mumbai before attending the meeting.  



Aug 31, 2023 15:44 (IST)
"INDIA Alliance A Formidable Challenger For BJP-Led NDA": AAP MP Raghav Chadha

Ahead of the big INDIA alliance meeting in Mumbai, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha said the alliance is a "formidable challenger" for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre and 135 crore people of India come under the alliance's "umbrella" and they have a lot of expectations from the bloc.

Aug 31, 2023 15:38 (IST)
INDIA Bloc Meeting Live: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrived in Mumbai with his mother Sonia Gandhi for the meeting. 
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