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Despite facing an internal party crisis, Sharad Pawar, the president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), will attend the opposition meeting in Bengaluru on Tuesday, as confirmed by an NCP spokesperson. Top leaders from 26 opposition parties are expected to attend this meeting and formulate a common minimum programme.
Ahead of the second Opposition meeting in Karnataka's Bengaluru the Communist Party of India General Secretary D Raja on Sunday said that all parties have to fight together to remove Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power.
While the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance will be holding a key meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday where nearly 30 parties are likely to participate, 24-26 Opposition parties are meeting in Bengaluru today.
The second meeting of the opposition leaders is going to take place on July 18 in Bengaluru.
Venugopal said the opposition parties are united by a common goal of safeguarding the country's democracy and ensuring constitutional rights and institutional independence.