With the third meeting of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) all set to take place in Maharashtra’s Mumbai from August 31 to September 1, all eyes are set on the discussions in the meeting as all the parties managed to work as one in the just concluded Parliament monsoon session. The upcoming meeting, which saw 26 parties attending the meeting in Bengaluru in July, is likely to witness some more parties joining the alliance at the Mumbai conclave. The INDIA alliance had already held two meetings in a gap of one month in Bihar Patna on June 23 and in Karnataka’s Bengaluru on July 18 and 19.
During the third meeting the discussions will begin among INDIA constituents on the formation of committees, including an all-important coordination committee. Decisions on the national convener, coordination committee and other political committees for the INDIA parties will be announced. It may be noted that in the Bengaluru meeting it was decided to have an 11 member coordination committee. So there will be a detailed discussion about it besides discussion over the name for the post of the convener will also take place.
Even the stay on the conviction of Rahul Gandhi will also be discussed during the meeting and how to tackle such a situation in the future against any of the political opponent leaders by the BJP. During the Mumbai meeting, even the strategy to corner the BJP-led NDA in the upcoming parliament winter session will also be decided keeping in the mind the suspension of the Leader of Congress Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, AAP Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha and AAP’s Lok Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Rinku.
The suspension of the MPs and the bulldozing of the Parliamentary process to pass the Bills in the Parliament have given the opposition fresh ammo in the hands of the Opposition parties. Thus the INDIA alliance members will utilise the momentum against the government besides the charges of the misuse of the central agencies against the political opponents. A detailed discussion will also take place on the same and a discussion will be held on how to corner the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) across the country.
All these INDIA alliance parties have come together to stop the juggernaut of the BJP-led NDA which managed to win 353 seats out of the 542 seats. The BJP had won 303 seats in the 2019 polls. The Congress had contested on 421 seats in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and was in a direct fight with the BJP at 373 seats. BJP had contested the 2019 polls on 435 seats while the rest of the seats were contested by its alliance partners. However, the grand old party could manage to win only 52 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections despite former party chief Rahul Gandhi running an aggressive campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
