INDIA alliance to hold first public meeting in Bhopal next month: KC Venugopal

The first meeting of the INDIA bloc Coordination Committee was held during the day at Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar's residence in Delhi. Twelve committee members representing various parties attended the deliberations.

After the meeting, KC Venugopal, General Secretary, Organisation, AICC, told media persons that the coordination committee decided to start the process for seat sharing. "It was decided that the member parties will hold talks and decide at the earliest."

The committee decided to hold joint public meetings in different parts of the country, he added.

Venugopal further informed that the first public meeting will be held in Bhopal in the first week of October.

"The parties present in the meeting agreed to take up the issue of caste census," he said.

The Congress General Secretary took a dig at the BJP and said it does vendetta politics.

He added that Abhishek Banerjee of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) could not attend the meeting due to a summon from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which was a manifestation of the "vendetta politics" of BJPand the Prime Minister.

The coordination committee authorised the media sub-group to decide the names of the anchors on whose shows none of the INDIA alliance parties will send its representatives.