Key Points
As the top leadership of anti-BJP parties prepare to meet in Patna on June 23 to draft version 2.0 of Opposition unity, it is becoming clear that their chemistry in 2023 is vastly different from that of their previous avatar in 2018...
In 2018, the confabulations only began in November when Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee flew to Delhi to meet Congress leader Sonia Gandhi..
In 2023, with many parties questioning the Congress position as the leader of the pack, the party is at pains to explain why the Opposition bloc is incomplete without their presence, though their successive victories in Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka have bolstered their claims...
Though the public rhetoric may be centred around one common candidate against the BJP in every Lok Sabha seat, there is a clear internal realisation that this is a utopian idea which is feasible only in a handful of States like Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra...
We have to work together, to ensure that we build a common strategy to attack the BJP, which then will be relayed by each partys machinery so that the message percolates to the voters rather than getting limited within each partys echo-chamber, another senior Opposition leader explained...
