31 August,2023 04:18 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi reached at the venue in Mumbai. Pic/Aishwarya Deodhar
Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi arrived in Mumbai on Thursday to participate in the I-N-D-I-A alliance meeting.
They were welcomed by senior party leader and Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Ashok Chavan and other leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal arrived in the city earlier in the day.
Soon after his arrival, Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a press conference on the Adani issue at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, the venue of the two-day meeting of
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Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I-N-D-I-A). On Friday, he will visit Tilak Bhavan, the party headquarters in Mumbai.
The two-day meeting is expected to deliberate on the strategy and roadmap to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Meanwhile, senior Maharashtra Congress leader Ashok Chavan said that a decision on who will be convenor of the opposition bloc I-N-D-I-A will be taken after deliberations during its meetings on Thursday and Friday in Mumbai, the PTI reported.
Ashok Chavan, who heads the organising committee of the opposition bloc, said all preparations have been completed for the two-day event, which will start with an informal meeting of representatives of 28 political parties this evening to discuss various items, including the agenda for Friday.
"The formal deliberations will begin at 10:30am on Friday. The issue of convenor will also come up for discussion in the informal meet as well as tomorrow. All parties will decide on the convenor, many names are there," Ashok Chavan said, according to the PTI.
"Development of the country and issues facing it will be on the agenda. Staying together will benefit all the I-N-D-I-A bloc partners," said the former Maharashtra chief minister, as per the PTI.
As many as 63 representatives from 28 political parties will attend the meeting of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance on August 31 and September 1 at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai.
Chavan dubbed the meeting of the BJP and its allies in the state on Thursday and Friday as a stunt.
(with PTI inputs)
