Nitish Kumar Meets Rahul Gandhi For Opposition Unity, Arvind Kejriwal Next

New Delhi:

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who got here to Delhi with a longish “to-do” listing for his ‘Mission Opposition’, checked off the primary merchandise this night, assembly Congress’s Rahul Gandhi at his Tughlaq Street residence. Sources mentioned the dialogue was fully on 2024 and the means to unite the opposition, on the finish of which Mr Kumar once more informed reporters that he has no ambition for the highest publish.

“There’s a concerted effort to weaken regional events. My effort is to unite the Opposition forward of the overall elections. I’ve no intention of pitching myself as a first-rate ministerial candidate,” Mr Kumar informed reporters.

However the buzz about his eye on the Prime Minister’s publish, that had began instantly after his break-up with the BJP, reveals no signal of abating, regardless of Mr Kumar’s many protestations on the contrary.

Whereas Mr Kumar had mentioned that he needs to satisfy the leaders of his new Mahagathbandhan alliance in Delhi, he has additionally declared that the go to is supposed to carry all of the opposition leaders below one umbrella – a job seen as a major problem.

The listing of individuals he needs to satisfy consists of a number of disparate parts.

The important thing amongst them is Aam Aadmi Occasion chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal — makes an attempt to amalgamate whom into the opposition coalition failed in 2019, with AAP’s position in ending the UPA authorities on the Centre weighing closely on the Congress.

The opposite chief Mr Kumar needs to satisfy is HD Kumaraswamy — the chief of the Janata Dal Secular, who ended the alliance with the Congress after their authorities in Karnataka fell by means of.

The formation of the Congress-JDS alliance in 2018 to maintain the BJP out of energy in Karnataka had marked the efforts to type the opposition entrance.

Mr Kumar can also be prone to meet Nationalist Congress Occasion chief Sharad Pawar, who was the prime mover within the efforts to unite the opposition in 2019; Samajwadi Occasion chief Akhilesh Yadav, one other chief seen as upset with the Congress; and the leaders of the Left which is offering outdoors help to his authorities in Bihar.

In accordance with sources in Mr Kumar’s Janata Dal United, the Bihar Chief Minister can also be scheduled to go to Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka quickly on his ‘Mission Opposition’.

This was kicked off final week with the go to of Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao to Patna. Mr Rao, as soon as a proponent of a non-Congress-non-BJP entrance, indicated that he was able to suppose contemporary. Requested in regards to the matter, Mr Kumar had pointedly mentioned, “Why Third Entrance, we’re engaged on the primary Entrance”.