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Bengaluru: Leaders from 26 different political parties have come together to discuss how they might work together to defeat the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Dinner discussions were held to finalise the agenda for the formal talks beginning Tuesday morning, and they included Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, who were seated next to each other; Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge; Rahul Gandhi; chief ministers M K Stalin, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal, and Hemant Soren; and RJD chief Lalu Prasad. According to our sources, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his daughter Supriya Sule will be the only invited leaders who do not attend the meeting at the Taj West End Hotel on Tuesday. "It was a good meeting," Mamata Banerjee stated afterward. The motto "United We Stand" was displayed on billboards all around Bengaluru alongside photographs of opposition leaders, and the leaders sat in front of a massive banner bearing the slogan. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Farooq Abdullah (NC), and Mehbooba Mufti (PDP), as well as Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), D Raja (CPI), and Jayant Chaudhary (RLD) attended the meeting hosted by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. All the leaders were greeted with open arms when they arrived for the two-day brainstorming session. A unified opposition, according to the Congress, would be "a game changer" for India's political landscape. It was critical of the BJP, claiming that its members, who "used to talk of defeating the opposition parties alone," are now trying to revive the "ghost" that is the National Democratic Alliance. Despite the BJP's attempts to divide the opposition, Congress president Kharge promised ...