New Delhi: DMK prtesident M K Stalin will attend anti-BJP parties meeting in New Delhi on 22 November to create a common platform and chalk out their future course of action. Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu said the endeavour was to bring everybody on board to fight the BJP.
He said, “This is broadly anti-BJP platform. This is in the interest of the nation. Save democracy, save the nation and save the institutions..that is the agenda. That is the national agenda, an utmost important agenda.”
The TDP chief had recently met former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, his Karnataka counterpart H D Kumaraswamy and DMK president M K Stalin as part of his efforts to forge a front against the BJP. “Now I have convinced everybody. Everybody is willing to cooperate with us.”
“In this experiment, Congress is the main opposition party. They have more responsibility. We have to acknowledge that,” he said.
The New Delhi meeting would decide on how to move forward and also build an organisational structure for the anti-BJP platform, he added.
He said he had already met several leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah and others, and would meet Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Replying to questions, he said there were only two platforms in the country BJP and anti-BJP. “Political parties should decide which side they are. If they don’t join us, it means they are with BJP,” he said.
While anti-BJP parties have their foundations in secularism and democracy, the BJP and RSS people have only the mask of democracy on their faces, he said.