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INDIA Alliance forges ahead crossing hurdles

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New Delhi, 21 December 2023

Satish Misra

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Three and half hour long deliberations of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance on 19 December in New Delhi were a show of determination and resolve of 28 opposition parties to pose a serious challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Parry in the coming Lok Sabha elections next year.

 

The meeting candidly discussed issues taking stock of the ground realities and made an earnest attempt to make good of the time that had been lost because of the assembly elections in five states. The Congress admitted tis mistake and asked alliance partners to forget and forgive its fault and move ahead for the larger cause of defending constitutional and democratic values.   

 

Setting the priorities, the meeting decided to conclude seats sharing agreement between all the parties so that INDIA is in position to give united one to one fight to the BJP on maximum number of Lok Sabha seat to ensure that that no anti-BJP vote goes waste. Leaders agreed that seat sharing among them would be done at the state level and should be completed in the next 20 days. The Congress on its part had announced a five member committee to ensure early conclusion of seat sharing arrangement among allies. 

 

The alliance also decided to hold joint rallies across the country with the first to be held on December 22 in the union capital to protest against the suspension of INDIA MPs for demanding statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the serious security breach of Parliament on December 13 when two youths could reach the Lok Sabha’s visitors’ gallery after clearing the required security checks and could protest inside the house shouting slogans against unemployment and other issues. The leaders of the 28 parties who participated in the meeting also decided to hold 8-10 joint meetings across the country to put up a united front.

 

At the same time, the alliance leader underplayed the intelligent move made by West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge be projected as the prime ministerial candidate of opposition bloc INDIA.

 

While the move had electoral potentials as by projecting a Dalit as the prime ministerial candidate, INDIA’s image would have gone up among the downtrodden community but the Congress president rightly emphasized that it was important to win first as without having enough number of MPs, the prime ministerial question becomes irrelevant.

 

After his name was proposed as a candidate to become the country's first Dalit prime minister at a meeting attended by 28 opposition leaders here, Kharge said, "I work for the downtrodden. Let's win first, then we will see. I don't seek anything."

 

First we have to win and get a majority, then MPs will decide democratically," Kharge said when asked if he could be the PM candidate for the opposition alliance.

 

Kharge said that INDIA bloc parties will focus on seat-sharing talks at the state level and hold public meetings across the country, stressing that any decision on the prime ministerial candidate will be taken after the elections.

 

The Congress president also said INDIA parties passed a resolution condemning the suspension of opposition MPs in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and will hold protest on it on December 22.

 

A resolution was passed to ask the Election Commission to ensure maximum use VVPATs in the upcoming polls. 

 

Conscious of the design of a section of media that is out to project INDIA as an alliance of leaders who are hungry for power and are working against each other, TMC supremo Banerjee categorically warned that when so many political parties are together, it is a democracy, with different states, different views and different opinions, but ultimately INDIA is a platform where we are fighting together".

 

"The BJP doesn't have any allies. The NDA is gone. We are not like that. It will be better, after the elections, we have to see the results, and then announce the PM candidate. All parties will decide that," she had stressed.

 

"You can decide how a party can do better for the people and motherland. You have to give priority to the people of India. What is going on right now is autocracy, which is not desired by anyone," she said.

 

Banerjee’s move was a political masterstroke so that a clear message could go to the people that INDIA parties are not hungry for power but they have a clear historical objective of placing a Dalit the executive head of the country. Banerjee’s move has undoubtedly triggered the popular imagination generating a debate on the issue.           

 

The move has already stirred a hornet’s nest as a section of media has already begun to project the proposal of Kharge as PM’s face as a snub to Rahul Gandhi who has consistently been saying that he is not in race for the chair of prime minister. He has said on more than one occasion that his fight is ideological and not aimed at power.

 

Big media including some national and regional dailies and TV news channels are presenting different views of different alliance leaders expressed at the meeting as difference among them while in fact they represent true democracy within the INDIA alliance.

 

A prominent leader of the alliance stated that “we are consciously following the old time tested maxim of ‘United we stand and divided we fall. It is not a mere cliché for us but an article of faith, he said requesting anonymity.           

 

This was the fourth meeting of the INDIA bloc leaders. The alliance had held its first meeting in Patna on June 23, the second meeting in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18, and the third in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1.

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