Meanwhile, they were received by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and other senior leaders of the party.
Kumar will be accompanied by his party JD(U)’s national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh and state Water Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha at the meeting, sources said.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, DK Shivakumar, has been deputed as in-charge to monitor all the preparations for the meeting.
Raut further confirmed that Shiv Sena chiefs Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray will also participate in the meeting in Karnataka’s Bengaluru.
The Congress in its 2019 Lok Sabha manifesto and the 85th Plenary Session in Raipur earlier this year promised to scrap the opaque electoral bond scheme that is designed to favour the ruling party, he said.
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) revealed in its most recent analysis of donations received by political parties
Chowdhury, who is the Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, had earlier written to Speaker Om Birla to hold a debate on the disqualification of Gandhi.
Leaders of 24 non-BJP parties have been invited for the meet on June 17 and 18, the first edition of which saw the participation of 15 parties.
Prominent among the invitees is Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar, who joined the Shiv Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra as deputy chief minister on July 2 while eight MLAs of his camp were sworn in as ministers.
Bhujbal and eight other NCP MLAs, including Ajit Pawar, took oath as cabinet ministers in the Eknath Shinde government on July 2 after breaking away from the 24-year-old party. Ajit Pawar took over as deputy chief minister.
Notably, Patil was present during Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar’s visit to Karad city, a day after Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs joined the Shiv Sena-BJP government.
Notably, comments of Singh, a Rajya Sabha member, came amid efforts by the Opposition to form a united bloc to take on BJP in the next Lok Sabha elections.
The Election Commission of India has announced that elections for 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Goa, Gujarat, and West Bengal will be held on July 24.
The BJP won 95 per cent of the seats in the three-tier panchayat elections in Tripura unopposed in 2019.
Opposition leaders had met the Congress president on Thursday evening and handed over a representation on their collective opposition to the delimitation exercise.
The NSUI is the student wing of All India Congress Committee (AICC).
Chief Minister Gehlot, who is recovering from fractures in both his toes, attended the meeting via video conferencing.
The second meeting of the ‘like-minded’ opposition parties will be held in Bengaluru on July 17-18. The first meeting was held in Patna on June 23.
Addressing a news conference here, Bhujbal also said that Ajit Pawar and other leaders will decide on whether to use photos of Sharad Pawar on posters.
Among the eastern states, West Bengal has 42 seats, Bihar has 40 seats, Odisha has 21 and Jharkhand has 14 seats.
Reddy, who spoke to reporters in Delhi, said he has always worked for the party as a soldier since 1980 and that he did not ask for any post.
Babaria also met party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge earlier in the day.
Supporters of Ajit Pawar also gathered outside his Devgiri official residence, also in south Mumbai, before he left to attend the meeting at Bandra.
Talking to reporters in Bihar’s Samastipur district, he refused to attach much political importance to the split in NCP in Maharashtra and the CBI chargesheet against Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
Kolhe, a Lok Sabha representative from Shirur, was present at the Raj Bhavan on Sunday for the oath-taking ceremony of Ajit Pawar and eight other new NDA members.