Opinion: Kejriwal's Condition As Opposition Preps For Patna
NDTV
On June 23, opposition parties will debut their biggest effort yet to organise an anti-BJP alliance for the 2024 national election. A meeting in Patna, where the seeds of the anti-Indira Gandhi movement were sown during a rally addressed by Jayaprakash Narayan on June 4, 1974, was suggested by Mamata Banerjee when Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav met with her in Kolkata on April 24.
The 1974 movement gave a boost to anti-Congressism; the bid now is for anti-BJPism. Then the target was Indira Gandhi. Now it is Narendra Modi.
Forming alliances to defeat the party in power has been a recurring phenomenon since the late 1960s. It began with the emergence of Indira Gandhi in 1966. She overcame the challenge in 1967 and in 1971. Opposition unity succeeded in 1977 and in 1989 - on both occasions, the BJP and its precursor, Jana Sangh, were the fulcrum of the successful alliance effort and the Congress was vanquished.
This time around, Congress will be the fulcrum, or at least it aims to be. It remains to be seen if this status is conceded to the Grand Old Party by the Patna participants. Many of these parties are direct rivals of the Congress on their limited turfs.
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