The opposition leaders are expected to meet in Patna to plan their campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The majority of non-BJP parties, both regional and national, are attending the key meeting that Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, is convening as they prepare to challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party in the general election of next year. At the chief minister's official house in the state capital of Bihar, the meeting is currently in progress.
Among the leaders anticipated to attend the first high-level opposition meeting are Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, party leader Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi CM and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav, and NCP President Sharad Pawar.
Navin Patnaik, the chief minister of Odisha, K Chandrashekhar Rao, the chief of Telangana, and Mayawati, the leader of the BSP, will be conspicuously absent from the meeting. Mayawati wasn't invited to the meeting, and Patnaik and KCR decided to skip it. According to K C Tyagi, the principal spokesperson for the JD(U), "We have invited those parties that are willing to fight against the BJP in 2024."
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