Leaders deliberated on the agenda for nearly 1.5 hours before a dinner on Monday night. After the informal discussions on Monday when a plan to send a delegation to Manipur also came up, the main meeting at Bengaluru's Taj West End hotel will continue on Tuesday when leaders from 26 parties gather for more talks and concrete measures.
"Well begun is half done! Like-minded opposition parties shall closely work together to foster an agenda of social justice, inclusive development and national welfare," Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge tweeted.
Meeting for the second time after another similar event in Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's residence in June, the leaders sat in front of a huge banner with a "United We Stand" slogan, which was also featured on posters that dotted the streets of Bengaluru.
"It was a good meeting," West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee later said.
Opposition leaders from across the country flew into Bengaluru on Monday for the meeting, whose second day will coincide with a meeting of the rival National Democratic Alliance (NDA) grouping. In the Patna meeting on June 23, all but one of the 15 attending parties vowed to jointly take on the BJP with a common agenda. That meeting was marked by acrimony between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress after the former refused to attend the joint press conference and asked the latter to make its stance clear on a controversial ordinance that gave the Centre control over Delhi's bureaucracy.
With the Congress announcing on Sunday that it will oppose the ordinance when it comes to Parliament in the upcoming monsoon session, the Bengaluru meeting is likely to be more cordial. AAP leaders such as Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, attended the meeting
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