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The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc will hold a meeting of its leaders in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss the future plan of action as the Lok Sabha Election concludes.

At the meeting, slated to be held at Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence, the INDIA bloc leaders will discuss the opposition’s preparations for the counting day on June 4. Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters on Thursday, Kharge said the meeting is being held for “our own sake” to train people and to give them information.

“This is an informal meeting. In this, we will only discuss what kind of preparation we should have on the day of counting and how our people should be alert, whether it is about EVMs or the 17C form used… Just for our own sake, we are holding this meeting to train our people and to give them information,” he said.

Senior leaders of the Congress, CPI-M, CPI, DMK, AAP, RJD, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharad Pawar) will hold discussions at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence this afternoon. TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already said they will not attend the meeting as there are elections in the state, while PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is likely to skip the meeting.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann are also likely to attend the meeting, besides senior Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and K C Venugopal. DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said party leader T R Baalu will attend the meeting.

“June 4th will mark the beginning of a new dawn for India. In today’s meeting of INDIA bloc leaders, DMK will be represented by our party Treasurer and leader of DMK’s Parliamentary Party, Thiru. T.R. Baalu avl,” Stalin said in a post on ‘X.’ Kharge had said this was an informal meeting where they would only discuss what kind of preparations they should have on the day of counting and how people should be alert, whether it is about the EVMs or the use of Form 17C.

The meeting is only for discussing the counting preparations and the Congress has already told its state units to be alert about Form 17C. People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti said she was likely to skip the meeting due to personal reasons. “I may not go as my mom has undergone an eye surgery,” she told PTI.

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah will attend the meet as he left Srinagar on Saturday morning. The seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections is underway on Saturday, including in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

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