Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi rebuts reports of divisions in INDIA alliance

Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader and Member of Parliament from Maharashtra Priyanka Chaturvedi on Tuesday rebutted the reports of divisions in the INDIA alliance and said that everyone is together in the INDIA allianceEveryone is together in the INDIA alliance We are there to fight against all the issues related to unemployment polarization farmer distress crime against women principles of democracies being underminedrdquo she saidReacting to reports of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee not participating in the upcoming December 6 meeting of the INDIA alliance the Shiv Sena leader said that since there was short notice she Mamata Banerjee is the sitting Chief Minister and may not be able to rearrange the schedule But Chaturvedi said we will make all possible arrangements for the early conduct of the meetingHowever Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury attacked Mamata Banerjee alleging that she never appealed to the people to vote for the opposition to defeat the BJP Her attitude was similar even before the elections There were elections in five states but she never appealed to the people to vote for the opposition to defeat the BJP Chowdhury saidThe December 6 meeting will be held after a gap of three months since the last one in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that she was not aware of any such meetingAlso read BJPs victory in three states an EVM mandate and doesnt reflect peoples support Sanjay RautWhile addressing the media on Monday the West Bengal CM said that her party was unaware that the INDIA alliance is planning to hold a sitting in New DelhiI dont know I have no information so I kept a programme in North BengalIf we had the information we wouldnt have scheduled those programmes We would have definitely gone for the meeting but we have not received any information the TMC chief saidAhead of the next meeting Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has dialled his alliance partners and invited them to converge Nationalist Congress Party Sharad Pawar faction leader Supriya Sule gave a hint after the Mumbai meeting that the next meeting will be held in the national capitalSeat sharing for the Lok Sabha polls which are just four to five months away is likely to be at the top of the agenda The next INDIA bloc meeting would also be crucial for Congress particularly as the party lost Rajasthan Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls the Hindi heartland states that send a large number of members to the ParliamentHowever the Congress could find the going tough in this meeting with key ally Samajwadi Party having struck a beligerent tone against the Congress in the assembly elections SP boss Akhilesh Yadav had accused the Congress of betraying the SP by not giving it tickets to contest in a potential alliance with the Congress in MPINDIA or Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance is a group of 28 opposition parties including the CongressThe first meeting of the joint opposition was convened in Patna on June 23 and the second meeting was held in Bengaluru on July 1718 The third meeting happened in Mumbai during August 31September 1In the Mumbai meeting the opposition parties adopted resolutions to collectively contest the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections while announcing that seatsharing arrangements would be finalized as soon as possible through a spirit of giveandtake With inputs from agencies