New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Sunday at New Delhi that there is a need for all opposition parties to join hands and work together to take the country forward.

Nitish Kumar and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav met AICC Interim President Sonia Gandhi and discussed the need of the opposition unity for the next upcoming elections in 2024 to defeat BJP.

They had a meeting with Sonia Gandhi at her residence10 Janpath is considered very crucial in forging an opposition unity as efforts are on to reconcile differences between the Congress and some regional parties that have been at loggerheads traditionally.

This was also Lalu Prasad’s first active political engagement in a long time. He has been ailing for some time now. After the meeting, Lalu Prasad told reporters, we have to bring all opposition parties together to defeat the BJP. The Congress is in the process of electing its new president and Sonia Gandhi told us we will meet again after the election, he added.

Nitish Kumar called for uniting all opposition parties, including the Congress and the Left, to take on the BJP and said this main front of opposition and will ensure that the saffron party loses badly in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Nitish Kumar attended a rally organized by the INLD in Haryana to mark former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal’s birth anniversary and said that if all non-BJP parties unite, then they can get rid of those who are working to destroy the country.

INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala, and SAD’s  Sukhbir Singh Badal, both with a long history of fighting the Congress, were on the stage with other senior leaders such as NCP’s Sharad Pawar, CPM’s Sitaram Yechury and Arvind Sawant of the Shiv Sena.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav was also on the stage in what was seen as a step towards unity among non-BJP parties. However, no one from Congress attended the rally.