Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav will meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday.
They are arriving in Delhi to attend a rally to mark the birth anniversary of former deputy Prime Minister and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) founder Devi Lal in Fatehabad, Haryana organised by INLD leader O.P. Chautala.
The meeting assumes importance in the backdrop of discussions on Opposition unity. Both Mr. Kumar and the RJD is pushing for a pre-poll alliance ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election rather than a loosely tied together front. “We are looking at 2004 style pre-poll alliance where alliances can be concretised at the State level between parties who are comfortable sharing space like we have one in Bihar,” a senior RJD leader said. Such an alliance can explored in five major States — Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharastra, which together sent 222 members to the Lok Sabha.
