Sonia to attend second Opp meet in Bengaluru

New Delhi, July 12: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will attend the second opposition meeting in Bengaluru on July 17-18 which will also see the participation of 24 parties, sources said on Wednesday. An invitation of the meeting has also been extended to the MDMK, KDMK, VCK, RSP, Forward Bloc, IUML, Kerala Congress (Joseph), and Kerala Congress (Mani). The meeting will be hosted by Karnataka Chief MInister Siddaramaiah. Sonia Gandhi will attend the meeting after she was invited by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge. In the first meeting that took place in Patna on June 23, Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal and several others had attended it. The meeting convened by Nitish Kumar had brought the parties together on a single platform to chalk out a strategy against the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. (IANS)