Absent from today’s meeting was Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, whose party opposed caste counting at a meeting of the INDIA bloc in Mumbai earlier this month.
INDIA’S opposition alliance has “agreed to start a caste census”, Congress leader KC Venugopal said on Wednesday evening after a meeting of the bloc’s coordination committee in Delhi. He said the group, which has come together to present a united opposition ahead of next year’s Lok Sabha elections, “will also start the seat-picking process”.
Only 12 of the 14 parties named to the bloc’s highest decision-making body were present today. The biggest absentee was the Trinamool Congress, whose Lok Sabha candidate Abhishek Banerjee was today “conveniently” summoned by the Enforcement Directorate to investigate alleged irregularities. in government appointments. .
