PATNA: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leader Rahul Gandhi will address the party workers at the Congress office in Bihar's Patna ahead of the Opposition leaders' meeting, which is slated to take place on Friday morning.

At 10 a.m. on Friday, the two leaders of the Congress will speak to the party's employees at the Patna headquarters.
The two top party officials will be welcomed at the Sadakat Ashram office of the Bihar State Congress. Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, and other party officials are featured on posters and banners that hang throughout the office.

A meeting of opposition party leaders from around the nation is scheduled for Patna in order to develop a plan of attack against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024.

The Opposition chose Patna as the location for its summit because it commemorates Jayaprakash Narayan's call for a complete revolution in 1974, which led to the overthrow of Indira Gandhi's majority government.
Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, will serve as the meeting's host in an effort to achieve agreement on creating a unified opposition front to oppose the BJP.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) head Jayant Chaudhary decided to forgo the summit due to a "pre-decided family programme" while leaders of many opposition parties arrived in Patna on Thursday. However, Chaudhary believed that the gathering would mark a "important turning point in the journey towards opposition unity."
This arose after the meeting's host, the Janata Dal (United), claimed Mayawati, the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), had not received an invitation.

Leaders of opposition parties to the BJP will attend the meeting, which has been convened by Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar and a leader of the Janata Dal (United).

Among the leaders who arrived in Patna before to the conference were PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Among the politicians slated to attend the summit are Hemant Soren, the chief of Jharkhand, Sharad Pawar, and Uddhav Thackeray, the former chief minister of Maharashtra. 

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