After thaw, Opposition leaders to get hot on INDIA agenda for LS polls

Picking up the pieces: After the Assembly poll debacle, the Congress has become more receptive to other Opposition parties. This may aid reconciliation at the INDIA meet tomorrow. Archis Mohan writes

In an attempt to restrict the untempered influence of 10 Rajaji Marg, the official residence of Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress president, the party shifted the meeting of the INDIA bloc on Tuesday to a hotel in the national capital. This move comes as a response to the abortive December 6 meeting of the Opposition bloc at Kharge’s residence.
 

The Congress, which in many respects still runs from 10 Janpath, had been ignoring its allies for the 90 days between their last meeting in Mumbai on August 31-September 1 and the election results