Opposition plans to keep focus on economic slowdown, organise conclave

The five Left parties on Monday announced a joint convention in the national capital on the issue on September 20

To prevent what it suspects to be the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s intent to deflect public attention from economic slowdown, leading Opposition parties are in the process of drawing up plans, including joining forces on common platforms, to keep the heat on the issue.

The Congress is planning a conclave on the issue in October, to be attended not just by the likes of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and its other in-house economists, but it is also reaching out to some of the world renowned Indian economists to speak at the daylong session.

It has already announced countrywide protests