DC Edit | 2024 turns two-horse race as INDIA is born
Deccan ChronicleThe battle lines for the 2024 Lok Sabha election have been drawn, with the Opposition parties forming a grand alliance and chalking out a broad outline of their agenda at their Bengaluru meeting on Tuesday. The 26-member INDIA, an acronym for the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, will fight on a plank of the “retrieval of the idea of India” while the NDA, with 39 parties, will base itself on the promise of “continuing with the unprecedented growth and development” that India is said to hve witnessed in the last nine years. The Janata Party came into being in 1977 by the amalgamation of four Opposition parties but several others, including the Left and the DMK, were still outside, supporting the Opposition cause. While the regional parties have their own reasons and political compulsions to join forces to oust the BJP, the Congress has proved to be a pragmatic player in the messy Opposition space.