The Opposition meet coincides with a mega meet of the ruling NDA in New Delhi.
Top leaders of 26 opposition parties are expected to attend the meeting, called by the Congress, to chalk out a plan for the upcoming Monsoon Session of parliament and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
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Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi reached Bengaluru, and was welcomed by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and his deputy DK Shivakumar.
The opposition leaders are expected to hold talks on ironing out their differences and project a united front in next year's general elections.
There is a proposal to set up a subcommittee for drafting a common minimum programme and communication points for the Opposition alliance for the 2024 general elections, sources said. The opposition leaders also plan to suggest a name for the alliance.
After deliberating for days, the Aam Aadmi Party yesterday announced that they too would participate in the meet. AAP made the announcement just hours after the Congress came out in support of the party's campaign against a contentious central order that wrested back control of Delhi's bureaucracy.
Sonia Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, Arvind Kejriwal, MK Stalin, Nitish Kumar, and Hemant Soren are among the leaders attending the meet.
K Chandrasekhar Rao, Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chandrababu Naidu and Naveen Patnaik will stay away.
The Opposition meet comes in the backdrop of the split in the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the West Bengal panchayat polls which saw widespread violence that claimed many lives with state units of the Congress and Left parties accusing the Trinamool Congress government of oppression.
Fifteen parties attended the last meeting for opposition unity hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on June 23.
The Opposition meet coincides with a mega meet of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in New Delhi, an exercise aimed at flexing numbers ahead of 2024 general elections.
The NDA expects nearly 30 parties will reiterate their support to the alliance before the Monsoon Session begins on July 20.
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