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Bihar chief Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Yadav will soon meet with interim congressional president Sonia Gandhi, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav said as leaders strive to unite the opposition to counter the BJP in the Lok Sabha 2024 polls.
“Yes, once she comes back there will be a meeting. Both (Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar) will go together (to meet her),” Mr Yadav said in Patna.
Asked about Nitish Kumar’s job promise, Tejashwi Yadav said: “We would certainly fulfill the promise to provide 20 lakh jobs. We are in government and this will happen.”
He reiterated that if all opposition parties unite, they will be successful in defeating the BJP in the 2024 general election.
“It’s a good thing. It has been clearly said that if we are all united, we will be successful (in defeating the BJP),” he told reporters when asked about Nitish Kumar’s recent meetings with opposition leaders in Delhi.
Nitish Kumar met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during his recent visit to the national capital.
The visit to Delhi came days after he broke his party’s alliance with the BJP and formed the government in alliance with the RJD in Bihar.
Earlier, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar had visited Rao Bihar and met Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav as part of their efforts to forge opposition unity.
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