Patna, June 23 : Fifteen Non-BJP politcal parties, who met here on Friday, claimed they would put up a united fight in the Lok Sabha polls next year.
“We all are united. We will contest together the next Lok Sabha election,” West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said after the meeting.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the opposition parties would hold the next meeting in Shimla, tentatively on July 12.
“The next meeting of opposition leaders will take place in Shimla, tentatively on July 12,” he said.
The meeting, convened here at the initiative of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, was attended by top leaders of opposition parties across the country.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, Rashtriy Janata Dal Supreme Lalu Prasad Yadav, CPI leader D Raja, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and General Secretary of CPI(ML) Deepankar Bhattacharya were among prominent opposition leaders who participated in the meeting.