United in their opposition to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the INDIA bloc partners will meet together outside Parliament for the first time in 14 months on Thursday (August 7, 2025) , when they are set to gather at the Delhi residence of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Apart from Parliament floor strategy meetings, the last time the INDIA bloc leaders physically sat across the table from each other was on June 1, 2024, just three days before the Lok Sabha election results were declared, at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence. On July 19, 2024, the bloc had a virtual meeting on the results.
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Thursday’s (August 7, 2025) dinner meeting will be followed the next day (August 8, 2025) by a joint protest march to Election Commission’s headquarters in the Capital. The SIR has acted as glue to bring the bloc back together after a tumultuous year of speaking out in separate, and sometimes contradictory, voices.
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