The INDIA alliance is reportedly able to negotiate seat sharing, and a common campaign strategy is apparently on the table.
On Wednesday, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar will host a meeting of the INDIA alliance’s 14-member coordination and electoral strategy committee at his New Delhi house.
According to rumors, conversations about seat sharing are anticipated, and a unified campaign strategy is also on the table.
According to a report in The Times of India (TOI), MP Raghav Chadha stated that topics pertaining to seat sharing between states are expected to be covered during the committee’s first meeting.
The committee member Chadha stated, “The INDIA coalition has not yet had any discussions regarding seat-sharing. This discussion is probably going to start at the INDIA Alliance’s coordination committee’s first meeting on Wednesday at Sharad Pawar’s house in Delhi.
He continued, “Mahatvakanksha (ambition), matbhed (different of view), and manbhed (difference of mind) need to be surrendered and set aside for such an alliance to succeed. Each and every member of this alliance must understand this.
Chadha added that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) entered the coalition to overthrow the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) authoritarian and anti-democratic rule.
Abhishek Banerjee, a member of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), will not attend the meeting after being contacted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday. No one from the TMC will attend the meeting either.
The TMC, Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Samajwadi Party (SP), and AAP are among the leaders who are said to believe that seat distribution is the “central issue” and that the coalition should move quickly to finalize the formula on which it can be decided.
We are talking about campaigns, social media, and media strategy in general, a senior opposition leader said. All of that happens once the product is completed. Seat sharing must be finished soon for that.
The meeting at the residence of Pawar will be attended by K C Venugopal (Congress), T R Baalu (DMK), Hemant Soren (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena – Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Raghav Chadha (AAP), Javed Ali Khan (SP), Lallan Singh (JD-U), D Raja (CPI), Omar Abdullah (National Conference), and Mehbooba Mufti (Peoples Democratic Party).
According to sources, the campaign committee intends to hold at least five rallies in Nagpur, Delhi, Patna, Guwahati, and Chennai. Additionally, the committee has suggested holding combined rallies in Uttar Pradesh and in the states where there will be Assembly elections later this year.
“The idea is to focus on one issue at each rally,” an opposition leader stated. The Patna gathering might center on social justice and the caste census. We can discuss assaults on the federal system in Chennai. Focusing on the Northeast, including the situation in Manipur, is the plan in Guwahati. Leaders in Nagpur are free to discuss secularism, politics of xenophobia, and polarization. The state of the economy, unemployment, and price increases are frequently hot topics in Delhi.
