Nearly six weeks after the opposition’s 26-party INDIA bloc was announced, the process to fine-tune its intricacies has been set in motion. The allies are meeting in Mumbai this week, hosted by the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which has the NCP, Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Congress and represents the alliance in Maharashtra.
Since the June meet in Patna, which formally floated the idea of the alliance, the bloc has been trying to come to terms with the task of smoothening some of the rough edges. Expectedly, this is going to be a long-drawn exercise, marked by not only formal meets like the one in Mumbai but also the informal parleys among and across parties.
