The real test of the unity of the opposition parties will be when the time comes for the distribution of seats.

You must have seen the picture that came from Bengaluru in 2018, in which all the opposition leaders were holding each other’s hands and vowing to remove the Modi government from power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. To prove this resolve, many parties, which were considered to be each other’s natural enemies, came together, but the result of the election was that the BJP single-handedly won 303 seats as against the 282 it won in 2014. Now in 2023 as in 2018, almost the same opposition faces are once again gathering in Bengaluru to oust the Modi government from power in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Whether this exercise of the opposition will pay off or Modi’s government will come to power once again, it will be known only after the election results, but the opposition has started making claims of coming to power and the ruling party winning more seats than last time.

Now, with less than a year left for the Lok Sabha elections, the alliances led by the BJP and the Congress have already started their preparations for the main contest. In Bengaluru, the opposition parties are converging to plan a strategy to remove the BJP from power, while in Delhi, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the constituents of the NDA are gathering to outline the election campaign for the victory of the Modi government once again. .

If seen, the preparations for the main match are being done in full from both the sides. Most of the strings are being put on small parties from both the sides. Small parties know that they can survive in the politics of the center only by standing under the umbrella of BJP or Congress. That’s why small parties are sitting on the platform of NDA or UPA as per their convenience in the name of raising the voice of the deprived and exploited and calling for saving the constitution. By the way, this time the opposition has Nitish Kumar and Uddhav Thackeray as new faces, as well as it has been successful in bringing Arvind Kejriwal with the Congress. Not only this, the ruling Trinamool Congress is also present on the opposition platform along with each other’s enemy in Kerala and alliance partner Congress and Left parties in Bengal. However, big faces like KCR, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, Chandrababu Naidu, Mayawati and Naveen Patnaik are out of the limelight. Apart from this, the power of this alliance may have weakened after the recent split in Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, but seeing the enthusiasm of the leaders, it does not seem that they have suffered any setback.

However, after Patna, now all the opposition leaders who have come to participate in the Bengaluru meeting have vowed unity against the Modi government, it can be said that its real test will be when the distribution of seats will be done. The time will come.