Lok Sabha Elections: 'Modi govt will be unstable'—What Sanjay Raut said on Naidu, Nitish Kumar staying with NDA
ALSO READ: 'PM Modi defeated because...': How 1% drop in vote share put BJP below majorityThe INDIA bloc leaders will meet at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence on Wednesday evening to deliberate on the Lok Sabha poll results, decide on the strategy to form the government, and consider reaching out to former allies Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha election 2024 results: Did Narendra Modi's Muslim pitch backfire?The TDP and JD(U) have already dismissed suggestions of defecting to the opposition alliance.Opposition leaders, including NCP-SP’s Sharad Pawar, DMK’s MK Stalin, JMM’s Champai Soren, TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, CPM’s Sitaram Yechury, and CPI’s D Raja are likely to attend the meeting, along with Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
According to reports last received, it was not confirmed whether Mamata Banerjee and Uddhav Thackeray would be attending the meeting.The BJP is short of the majority mark of 272 seats and is hoping to form the government a third time with its allies.With support from Naidu's TDP in Andhra Pradesh and Nitish Kumar's JD(U) in Bihar, which won 16 and 12 Lok Sabha seats, respectively, and other alliance partners, the NDA can cross the halfway mark.Milestone Alert!
Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world
