More than three months after their Mumbai meet, the leaders of the 28-party INDIA bloc met in Delhi this week to firm up the roadmap for their electoral alliance ahead of the 2024 polls.
The long gap between meets didn’t go down well with some partners. The intervening period saw assembly polls in five states. The Congress’s focus on them concerned some allies over loss of momentum – they felt the Congress’s preoccupation with the polls was delaying work on the national alliance. Moreover, the fact that the bloc partners were unable to form alliances for the assembly polls was seen as an early sign of divergence and conflicting interests within the alliance.
