Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday night chaired a meeting of his cabinet colleagues and leaders of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents.
The meeting was held at Shinde’s official residence ‘Varsha’ in South Mumbai but its agenda was not immediately known. Shiv Sena of Shinde faction is leading the coalition government in the state.
Deputy Chief Minister and leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar (rebel faction of NCP), cabinet ministers as well as prominent leaders of parties included in the BJP-led NDA attended the meeting.
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This meeting, led by Shinde, took place at a time when all the parties of the India Alliance had reached Mumbai and their meeting on August 31 had just concluded. The meeting of these parties is to be held again on September 1.
India’s meeting
The alliance of opposition parties ‘India’ on Thursday pledged to prepare on a war footing to take on the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Some leaders of the opposition alliance stressed the need to finalize the seat sharing and come up with a joint agenda in a few weeks.
Top opposition leaders met for a few hours in an informal meeting on the first day of the third round of talks of their alliance. Opposition leaders stressed that they should work together as soon as possible.
On the other hand, Deputy CM Fadnavis said while talking to journalists on Thursday, “This is the India Alliance that has been formed. It is not going to have any effect. These people have come to Mumbai. They have only one agenda. Remove Modi ji, why is this an agenda? Because the work of locking all the dynastic parties is being done because of Modi ji. People are rejecting the parties which used to serve his family.
