Not Shimla; After Patna, Opposition Parties To Head South To Bengaluru For Next Meet On 13-14 July

Sharad Pawar, the chief of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), said on Thursday (29 June) that Bengaluru will host the next opposition meeting on 13 and 14 July.

During the first opposition meeting in Patna on 23 June, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had said that the upcoming meeting to strategise a united front against the BJP would take place in Shimla.

In Patna, 16 opposition parties convened to streamline a roadmap for challenging the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Following the four-hour meeting, the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) engaged in heated exchanges.