Akhilesh to meet Mamata as opposition looks to bring 8 parties on board

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A group of opposition leaders is scrambling to get the eight Opposition parties whose leaders wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 5 against what they saw as the blatant misuse of central agencies, to work in unison...

As a part of the plan, Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will travel to Kolkata on March 17 to meet West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee..

One opposition leader working to get the grouping going said that a meeting of the eight parties is being scheduled during the ongoing budget session in Delhi..

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party, his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress, Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao of BRS, Bihar deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav of RJD, former CMs Yadav of SP, Sharad Pawar of NCP, Farooq Abdullah NC and Uddav Thackeray of the Uddhav Balasahed Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena , will be invited for the meeting to evolve a common strategy for the 2024 election, the leader said...

In their letter to the PM on March 5, the opposition leaders said, The blatant misuse of central agencies against the members of the opposition appears to suggest that we have transitioned from being a democracy to an autocracy...Sisodia is recognised globally for transforming Delhis school education..

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