There will be no discussion on the prime ministerial candidate in the upcoming mega opposition meet scheduled to be held in Bihar’s capital city Patna on 23 June, media reports quoting sources said on Wednesday.
The sources further said that the political parties attending the meeting will focus on a common agenda in the run-up to the 2024 parliamentary polls.
“The meeting is the first step. A common agenda will be finalised”, said a source from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which along with Bihar's ruling alliance partner Janata Dal-United (JD-U) is playing host of the meet.
The source added that the issues which will be discussed during the meeting include inflation, unemployment, demonetisation, faulty GST, communal harmony, misuse of government agencies, and subversion of democracy, while a strategy will be formed to draw people’s attention towards the government's economic mismanagement.
Apart from this, the issue of a caste-based census is also likely to be taken up during the meeting.
The source also told the media that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar is likely to present a common minimum programme.
The mega opposition meet will be attended by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal state chief Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Jharkhand state chief Hemant Soren, former state chief of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray, Tamil Nadu state chief M.K. Stalin, Delhi state chief Arvind Kejriwal, Communist Party of India (CPI) Seneral secretary D. Raja, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya.