Mallikarjun Kharge will have to make efforts to woo the opposition parties

Mallikarjun Kharge, who has been elected as the new President of Congress, faces a challenge not only to get back the organization's weaknesses and the party's lost political ground, but also to bring the opposition parties together. With regional parties in direct conflict of political interest in many states, Kharge will have to struggle hard to unite the opposition. In the way of bringing regional parties like Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, Bharat Rashtra Samiti under the umbrella of opposition unity, there are many obstacles ranging from conflict of interest to opposition leadership. Till now Kharge had no direct role in the political initiative of opposition unity.

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has been taking command on this front till now and former president Rahul Gandhi has also been active during the last few years. Sonia Gandhi will, of course, continue to be the chairperson of the UPA alliance, but as the Congress president, Kharge will have to make direct equations with the leaders of all the opposition parties. As the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, so far his political role with the opposition leaders has been confined to the joint strategy of the opposition in the Parliament. But Kharge, who is going to formally take over as the Congress President on October 26, was met by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, BRS president K. From Chandrashekhar Rao to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, equations have to be made.

The Congress has an unavoidable need for opposition mobilization for its political comeback. The party has publicly accepted the fact that all the opposition parties will have to come on one platform to challenge the BJP in 2024. But, it is also true that after the 2019 general elections, three or four serious efforts of opposition unity have not come to fruition. From Sonia Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Chandrashekhar Rao to recent Nitish Kumar's initiatives are examples of this. Against this background, whether there is an in-principle-ideological consensus, it is difficult in many states to emerge a picture of solid opposition unity on the ground.

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