Given the new opposition unity, what will happen to the G-8?
The G-8 is a group of eight chief ministers who do not belong to the BJP or the Congress. Be that as it may, even before its most memorable proper occasion, the Congress is by all accounts becoming the overwhelming focus in resistance solidarity.
Ankush Pandey
MPs representing nearly 19 opposition parties attempted to march from Vijay Chowk to the Constitution Club in New Delhi with tirangas in their hands on the final day of Parliament's budget session.
They held a joint press conference with the following agenda later that day: focus on the Narendra Modi government over the Adani issue and Rahul Gandhi's exclusion from the Lok Sabha. These were powerful and rare images of the opposition uniting against the Modi government.
Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee, and KCR were among the eight non-BJP and non-Congress Chief Ministers who launched the G-8 forum. However, this also sparked the question of what would happen to it.
Even though the Congress is at the center of the united opposition, regional parties may have an equal voice in the G-8 forum. However, if the larger opposition's strategy is successful, would the G-8 lose its significance?
United Opposition or G-8, What's The Way Forward?
A senior Aam Aadmi Party leader told India Today, "The United Opposition (of 19 parties) is strictly limited to the core issue of the Adani Group." This contrasts with the picture that the Congress party paints.
Malikkarjun Kharge, the president of the Congress, said on Thursday that the opposition parties will continue to work together to fight the BJP, countering PM Modi's assertion that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win the elections for the Lok Sabha in 2024.
However, the MPs of non-UPA opposition parties' body language regarding the leadership question was something that could not be missed in this joint press conference.
Be it K Keshava Rao of the BRS or Sanjay Singh of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), they ensured their presence in the unified resistance gathering was not misinterpreted as their acknowledgment of the Congress' authority for the 2024 fight.
The Leadership Question
Syed Naseer Hussain, a congressman, said that as the Lok Sabha elections get closer, the leadership issue will be resolved.
"The opposition parties will not necessarily abandon their ideological differences when they come together to discuss certain issues. There will be contrasts, the initiative inquiry will remain," Senator Hussain told India Today.
He further added, "The initiative inquiry can be responded to when the decisions are reported." For the present, the resistance groups have met up on significant issues that worry the country. 19 political parties, some with a national presence and others with local relevance, have united. Even political parties like TMC, AAP, and BRS are uniting."
However, the BRS and AAP are making it abundantly clear that their current unity is restricted to the Adani issue.
"19 opposition parties have come together on the Adani-Modi issue," AAP MP Sanjay Singh stated. It is necessary to establish the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in order to conduct an investigation into the multi-lakh-crore financial fraud that the Modi government has carried out in order to maintain its political regime via Adani. Any electoral alliance should not be compared to this united opposition front. A new perspective on the developments in the election is required.
Additionally, BRS MP K. Keshava Rao maintained that the leadership issue would be resolved in the future. He emphasized that the eight CMs' G-8 platform is primarily a governance platform.
Notably, sources claim that the first meeting of the common platform proposed by non-BJP and non-Congress Chief Ministers is anticipated to take place in the middle of April. But would the Adani issue's new developments, RaGa's disqualification, and the opposition's strategy in Parliament all have an effect on how the G-8 works and what happens?
"The idea of using the G-8 as a platform was talked about." However, there has not yet been a clear and introductory beginning, Maji, a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, told India Today. She went on to say that "any kind of opposition unity is desirable, whether it's at the level of policy or politics."
Hemant Soren, the de facto head of the JMM and the CM of Jharkhand, is said to have close ties to Maji. CM Soren, for example, is a part of the G-8 platform.
The Congress party, on the other hand, has remained at a distance because it still appears to be ignorant or dismissive of the forums, such as the G-8.
Strangely, when Senator Naseer Hussain was gotten some information about the delicacy of the present joined resistance discussion, particularly considering the G-8 stage, he said, "I accept there are generally two stages in India: the Assembled Moderate Partnership and the Public Vote based Collusion (NDA). Nobody has left the UPA, rather, more union accomplices are joining the UPA."
"The picture will start getting clearer as and when more political developments occur," he continued. The authority question will get settled. Pre-poll alliances will provide answers to many questions, and the post-poll alliance will address any remaining issues.
