Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s big announcement at Opposition meeting

On the 2nd day of the opposition meeting, the Congress said that their only slogan is to protect democracy and that they are not eyeing the post of Prime Minister.

Top leaders of 26 opposition parties are debating on July 17-18 in Bengaluru. They are likely to start working on a joint minimum program and announce a joint campaign plan to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

At a joint meeting of the opposition in Bengaluru, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said, "I have already said in Chennai, on MP Stalin's birthday, that the Congress is not interested in power or the post of Prime Minister. Our intention in this meeting is not to get power for ourselves. It is it is the protection of our constitution, democracy, secularism and social justice.”

Acknowledging the differences between the opposition parties at the state level, the Congress chief said these were not "ideological". 

“These differences are not so great that we cannot put them behind us for the sake of the common man and the middle class who are suffering. because of inflation, because of our youth who are suffering from unemployment, because of the poor, dalits, adivasis and minorities whose rights are being quietly crushed behind the scenes,” the Congress chief said.

"The BJP did not win 303 seats on its own. It used the votes of its allies and came to power and then threw them away. Today the BJP president and its leaders are running from state to state to entangle themselves with their old allies," he added. he added.