The city became the focal point of a significant opposition gathering ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, where leaders from various parties came together to strategize and discuss key political issues.
Bihar바카라s capital Patna was decked up with large stall-like cut-outs named 'mohabbat ki dukan' (shop of love), borrowing a line from a speech by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Other posters that dotted the historic city of Patna included those by BJP supporters, which termed Friday바카라s opposition meet as 바카라parivar bachao바카라 (save the family), taking a dig at the Gandhi family.
The cut-outs in the shape of a shop offered jars of 바카라nafrat chodo, Bharat jodo바카라 (shun hatred, unify India). Gandhi had last year in Alwar said 바카라nafrat ki bazaar mein, mohabbat ki dukan khol raha hu (In this bazaar of hatred, I am opening a shop of love)바카라, in an apparent reference to alleged attacks on the opposition and certain sections of society. Colourful posters and banners of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Kejriwal, his Punjab counterpart Bhagwat Mann and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, among others, were also put up across the city.
The first joint meeting of opposition parties from across the country, ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, were held in Patna on Friday. Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin, Delhi CM and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav, Shiv Sena (UBT) leder Uddhav Thackeray, NCP president Sharad Pawar, former Jammu and Kashmir CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti and several opposition leaders attended the meeting.