According to media reports, leaders of the DMK, RJD, NCP, Samajwadi Party, and Left parties are expected to attend the opposition meeting
New Delhi: On Monday opposition parties are expected to participate in a meeting called by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday to evolve a joint strategy on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens.
A meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Saturday had announced the party would deliberate with other “friendly” opposition parties on the situation resulting from the Citizenship Act, which the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government formally notified on January 10.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had announced that the meeting called by Sonia Gandhi, expected to be held at 2 pm at the Parliament Annex on Monday, “will further discuss the current situation”. According to media reports, leaders of the DMK, RJD, NCP, Samajwadi Party, and Left parties are expected to attend the opposition meeting.
BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday confirmed she would not attend the meeting organized by Congress. In a series of tweets, she said the Congress had “broken” the BSP in Rajasthan when the party’s six MLAs switched to the Congress in September 2019. Mayawati described the move as being “completely untrustworthy”.
On the other hand, Trinamool Congress party chief Mamata Banerjee, upset by the clashes between the workers of the Left and her TMC during last week’s trade union strike, has declared that she would not attend the opposition meeting. Underscoring that it was she who raised the idea of the meet” Banerjee said, “What happened yesterday in the West Bengal — it is no more possible for me to attend the meeting anymore”.
“I was the first person among others to launch an Andolan (movement) against CAA, NRC,” she added. “But what the Left and the Congress are doing in the name of the CAA-NRC is not a movement but vandalism in states”.
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