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Kharge hosts INDIA bloc lunch at Moets again
The Indian Express··4d ago
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge invited Opposition MPs to lunch at Moets in Connaught Place on October 8. The invite set 1.45 pm at Moets K-14, Outer Circle. Sources said a post-lunch protest plan would be fixed during the meal. The Samajwadi Party, absent on Wednesday, is scheduled to join. The push seeks CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over SIR.
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What It Means For You
- Delhi may see another INDIA bloc street protest after the Thursday lunch meeting.
- The Cockroach Janta Party has also called an agitation in Delhi on October 10.
- DMK and AAP have stayed away from the INDIA bloc protests so far.
What's Happening
- Wednesday’s lunch at Sagar Ratna in Janpath preceded a protest stopped near Windsor Place.
- Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were among MPs detained and later released on Wednesday.
- On Tuesday, the siblings entered Akashvani Bhavan during a march toward the Election Commission.
What the lunch invites signal
- Back-to-back lunches are being used to keep Opposition MPs coordinated on the SIR campaign.
- Some allies had grumbled that Tuesday’s sit-in became a Rahul Gandhi show.
- Congress leaders later told allies the Akashvani Bhavan sit-in was unplanned.
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