"You cannot give the opposition a calendar saying you unite on these days and disunite on these days. When there is a political event, then a political momentum around the event is created. If the opposition sees they also have a stake in it, then that is when they will start doing their balancing. The act of profit and loss etc… We should be looking at how many candidates there are for this coveted position. You have Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar, K Chandrashekar Rao, Rahul Gandhi, all fighting for the Prime Minister's post. It is extraordinary that we are talking about the same national kind of image as the charisma of Narendra Modi and nationalism," Nalini Singh, senior journalist, on opposition unity in 2024 election.