Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee to meet in Kolkata, likely to chalk out opposition strategy to take on BJP in Lok Sabha elections 2024

Nitish Kumar: Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, stated that there is "no ego clash" regarding a grand alliance of anti-BJP parties and that it will be the people vs. BJP in the general elections of next year following a brief meeting with her counterpart Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav today. She asserted that she had previously stated that she had no problem with the like-minded Opposition parties coming together for the crucial election contest.

Top takeaways from Nitish Kumar's meeting with Akhilesh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee:

• There had previously been rumours that Nitish Kumar may meet Mamata Banerjee on April 25. Banerjee's office in the state secretariat "Nabanna" is where Kumar anticipates meeting her.
• The two leaders would likely meet behind closed doors to plan their strategy for taking on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
• Similar meetings between Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav and Naveen Patnaik of Odisha were place last month.
• The encounter will occur soon after Kumar's trip to New Delhi, where he met with Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, the presidents of the Congress. The meeting was regarded as a crucial first step towards establishing a broad Opposition alliance in advance of the general elections in the following year.
• Tejashwi Yadav, the deputy chief minister of Bihar, was also present during the meeting, which was conducted at Kharge's home.
• According to a top Mahagathbandhan member in Bihar who confirmed Kumar's scheduled meeting with Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav will probably travel with Kumar to Lucknow.
• After senior Congress leader Harish Rawat visited on him in Patna on Wednesday and had a lengthy conversation with him, Kumar reportedly changed his mind about starting his negotiations with regional party leaders the following month.
• Following the meeting, Rawat had stated that there needed to be political negotiations between the two presidents.

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Kumar will soon launch a national effort to bring the BJP's opponents together

Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, will also meet with Kumar on Monday in Lucknow. In a recent interview with the media, Kumar stated that he will soon launch a national effort to bring the BJP's opponents together. On the sidelines of an official event in Patna, Kumar had said, 'You will all know after I went out.'

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