00:00India Bloc meets today to strategize on the Election Commission and SIR Rao,
00:04but the opposition enters the meeting with visible chinks in its ranks.
00:08Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav will not be attending the meeting.
00:11The Samajwadi Party says that his absence is because of Rajasabha nomination-related commitments in Uttar Pradesh
00:17and that he will send a representative instead.
00:20But the Samajwadi Party is not the only major constituent staying away.
00:26Congress' former ally in Tamil Nadu, the DMK, has also decided to skip the meeting.
00:31The party has said that it is no longer part of the India Bloc,
00:34following the breakdown in its relationship with Congress after Congress-backed Vijay's TVK in Tamil Nadu.
00:40And then there is the Amadmi Party, one of the most vocal opposition voices.
00:44Amadmi Party has also decided not to attend the meeting,
00:47with Sanjay Singh saying that the party has already made it clear that it is not part of the India
00:52Alliance.
00:52Meanwhile, BJP has mocked India Bloc and has said that India Bloc's facade of unity
00:57has been exposed as the so-called allies keep trading accusations.
01:05Akhilev Shadav, I spoke to Akhilev Shadav the day before yesterday.
01:08Yesterday, all of the Congress presidents spoke to him.
01:11He has an election nomination tomorrow, Rajasabha.
01:15In that issue, he cannot come personally.
01:19He is trying to come.
01:21But difficulty is there because of filing nomination papers tomorrow.
01:25That is in Uttar Pradesh.
01:26You know Uttar Pradesh's situation.
01:28That is why he is not attending.
01:30His party leaders are attending.
01:32What is the issue?
01:33I agree.
01:34The Amadmi Party has first passed the fact that we are not in India.
01:37We are not in India.
01:39So, there is no meaning to be in such a meeting.
01:44And the other thing,
01:45when the question of impeachment is about Gyanese Kumar,
01:48we have signed them.
01:50If we have signed them in the parliament,
01:51if Gyanese Kumar is about impeachment,
01:54we have signed them in the parliament,
01:56if we have signed them in the parliament,
01:57we have signed them in the parliament,
01:58if we have signed them in the parliament,
02:00we will have signed them in the parliament.
02:03So,
02:04would they have signed them in the parliament?
02:05Do they have signed them in the parliament?
02:06So,
02:06I don't know.
02:07There are some differences among them.
02:09Many of the parties,
02:11they do not want to go with Congress.
02:13But,
02:14they are ideologically,
02:15they are united in the matters.
02:18They have the same view,
02:19and they will oppose BJP.
02:22So,
02:23they need not attend the India block,
02:25because the issues,
02:26every party knows,
02:27and every party is in line with the Congress.
02:31So,
02:32attending the meeting alone is just a formality,
02:36that's all.
02:36I think it is not stable,
02:38because many of the parties have opposed Congress,
02:41even their alliance,
02:43switching of alliance in Tamil Nadu,
02:44they have criticized.
02:46India alliance government.
02:49My partner of India.
02:50keeps serving petty money every time is in India.
02:52India alliance government,
02:53the powers have open,
02:55and India alliance government has fallen.
02:57the people who have been sitting in Delhi,
02:59and politicians,
03:00all of us are saying that we must do work from home,
03:01and rejoice,
03:02and sit and reign.
03:03So,
03:04that's how this will go,
03:04the culture of the government party have taken up.
03:08The government party has been shot,
03:10and a group of the bar.
03:10The government party has made up the government party
03:12and the government party has taken.
03:13So,
03:13the government party has taken up theンナجas,
03:29So let's also understand what are the challenges for the India bloc.
03:33So mega regional rifts rife in the India camp.
03:36We're already seeing deep differences among the regional allies
03:39that could make coordinated action difficult
03:41and a seat-sharing conflict already waging in Uttar Pradesh
03:45and Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesha will also be skipping the meeting today.
03:50So disagreements over constituency allocation may strain the cooperation
03:53among the alliance partners, which is already kind of visible in the India bloc.
03:57Allies often see Rahul Gandhi as a liability.
04:00So some alliance partners have reportedly questioned whether Rahul Gandhi
04:03strengthens or weakens their electoral prospects and the India bloc.
04:08Congress Party's poor poll show drags down alliances.
04:11So Congress Party's weaker electoral performance in some states
04:15has in fact affected the alliance's overall bargaining position
04:20and the absence of key leaders also weakens alliance solidarity.
04:25So the absence of prominent leaders can reduce coordination, visibility and cohesion
04:29and the opposition lacks the numbers to impeach Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Nwana.
04:34That's very crucial.
04:35So without sufficient parliamentary support,
04:38an opposition-led removal motion against the Chief Election Commissioner
04:41faces a numerical hurdle.
04:43BJP's spirited fight back against the SIR lies.
04:46So the BJP is actively contesting opposition allegations about the SIR process
04:50and calling some claims even misleading.
04:53BJP is pointing to opposition silence in wins but noise in losses.
04:57So the BJP argues that the opposition accepts electoral outcomes when they are successful
05:02but raises objections after defeats and start questioning the Election Commission
05:06and EVMs if they lose the election.
05:08The SIR process has already cleared the Supreme Court scrutiny.
05:13So that's also another challenge for the opposition bloc.
