Group of 26 Oppn parties joins hands under banner of ‘INDIA’

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Twenty-six Opposition parties, which won 134 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and secured a 35% vote share, announced a pre-poll coalition at a mega meeting in Bengaluru on Tuesday, marking the first time in a generation that disparate political outfits have come together on the national stage to take on the incumbent government.

The parties announced that their grouping will be called INDIA, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). “Let us challenge the NDA. The NDA cannot challenge INDIA. Is there anyone who can challenge INDIA?” West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress, a key constituent of the new alliance, said.

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THE BIG STORY

Group of 26 Oppn parties joins hands under banner of ‘INDIA’

Twenty-six Opposition parties, which won 134 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and secured a 35% vote share, announced a pre-poll coalition at a mega meeting in Bengaluru on Tuesday, marking the first time in a generation that disparate political outfits have come together on the national stage to take on the incumbent government.

The parties announced that their grouping will be called INDIA, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge announced the creation of an 11-member coordination committee and said the constituents of the panel will be declared at the next meeting of the alliance in Mumbai. The parties will also set up a secretariat for campaign management in Delhi. Read more.

THE BIG QUESTION

What comparison did PM Modi make between the NDA and the 26-party Oppn alliance?

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a rainbow of regional aspirations that puts the nation first and is trusted by India because it is a formation with a positive agenda and wasn’t conceived to grab power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a conclave of allies on Tuesday evening.

Speaking in Delhi hours after 26 Opposition parties announced a coalition and named it INDIA, Modi told his allies that NDA stood for “New India, Developed India, and the Aspiration of the people”, hitting out at what he described as negative alliances built by the corrupt to peddle dynasty politics, casteism, and regionalism. Read more.

FROM THE FIELD

Oommen Chandy, mass leader credited with big projects, dies at 79

Two-time Kerala chief minister and Congress leader Oommen Chandy died at a hospital in Bengaluru in the early hours of Tuesday. He was 79 and suffering from cancer.

The Kerala government announced a holiday on Tuesday and cancellation of examinations as the news about his death broke. Read more.

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