00:00So, the India Bloc meets today to strategize on the Election Commission and SIR Rao,
00:05but the opposition enters the meeting with visible chinks in its ranks.
00:09Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav will not be attending the meeting.
00:12The Samajwadi Party says that his absence is because of Rajasabha nomination-related commitments in Uttar Pradesh
00:18and that he will send a representative instead.
00:21But the Samajwadi Party is not the only major constituent staying away.
00:27Congress' former ally in Tamil Nadu, the DMK, has also decided to skip the meeting.
00:32The party has said that it is no longer part of the India Bloc following the breakdown in its relationship
00:37with Congress
00:38after Congress backed Vijay's TVK in Tamil Nadu.
00:41And then there is the Amadmi Party, one of the most vocal opposition voices.
00:45Amadmi Party has also decided not to attend the meeting,
00:48with Sanjay Singh saying that the party has already made it clear that it is not part of the India
00:53Alliance.
00:53Meanwhile, BJP has mocked India Bloc and has said that India Bloc's facade of unity
00:58has been exposed as the so-called allies keep trading accusations.
01:06Akhilev Shadav, I spoke to Akhilev Shadav the day before yesterday.
01:09Yesterday, all of the Congress presidents spoke to him.
01:12He has an election nomination tomorrow, Rajasabha.
01:16In that issue, he cannot come personally.
01:20He is trying to come.
01:23But difficulty is that because of filing nomination papers tomorrow.
01:26That is in Uttar Pradesh.
01:27You know Uttar Pradesh's situation.
01:28So that is why he is not attending.
01:31His party leaders are attending.
01:33What is the issue?
01:34I agree.
01:35The Amadmi Party has first posted that we are not in India as a part of the government.
01:41So it does not mean to be in any meeting in such a meeting.
01:45And the other thing, where the question of impeachment is,
01:48against Gyanese Kumar, we have signed on it.
01:51So if we have signed on the parliament against Gyanese Kumar,
01:54if we have an impeachment of impeachment,
02:07I don't know.
02:08There are some differences among them.
02:10Many of the parties there,
02:12they do not want to go with Congress.
02:15But they are, ideologically, they are united in the matters.
02:19They have the same view and they will oppose BJP.
02:23So they need not attend the India bloc because the issues,
02:27every party knows and every party is in line with the Congress.
02:32So attending the meeting alone is just a formality.
02:37That's all.
02:38I think it is not stable because many of the parties have opposed Congress.
02:43Even their alliance, switching of alliance in Tamil Nadu,
02:46they have criticized.
02:47India allies garbandan,
02:49India has opened its door to their full power.
02:57India has been closed.
02:57India allies garbandan is sitting in Delhi.
03:01India is saying that we will work from home.
03:03We will sit from home and sit from home.
03:05How will it go?
03:06The culture of the war from home took off of the national party.
03:08The party has also joined the president's coalition.
03:10The group is the people who stay there.
03:15Realtitude of the panel.
03:30So let's also understand what are the challenges for the India bloc.
03:34So mega regional rifts rife in the India camp.
03:37We're already seeing deep differences among the regional allies that could make coordinated
03:41action difficult and a seat-sharing conflict already waging in Uttar Pradesh and Samajwadi
03:47Party Chief Akhilesh Adav will also be skipping the meeting today.
03:51So disagreements over constituency allegation may strain the cooperation among the alliance
03:55partners, which is already kind of visible in the India bloc.
03:58Allies often see Rahul Gandhi as a liability.
04:01So some alliance partners have reportedly questioned whether Rahul Gandhi strengthens
04:05or weakens their electoral prospects and the India bloc.
04:09Congress Party's poor poll show drags down alliances.
04:13So Congress Party's weaker electoral performance in some states has in fact affected the alliance's
04:19overall bargaining position and the absence of key leaders also weakens alliance solidarity.
04:26So the absence of prominent leaders can reduce coordination, visibility and cohesion.
04:31And the opposition lacks the numbers to impeach Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Nwana.
04:36That's very crucial.
04:36So without sufficient parliamentary support and opposition-led removal motion
04:40against the Chief Election Commissioner faces a numerical hurdle.
04:44BJP's spirited fight back against the SIR lies.
04:47So the BJP is actively contesting opposition allegations about the SIR process and calling
04:52some claims even misleading.
04:54BJP is pointing to opposition silence in wins, but noise in losses.
04:59So the BJP argues that the opposition accepts electoral outcomes when they are successful,
05:03but raises objections after defeats and start questioning the Election Commission and EVMs if they lose
05:09the election.
05:10The SIR process has already cleared the Supreme Court scrutiny.
05:14So that's also another challenge for the opposition bloc.
