The Congress will attend a meeting called by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Delhi on Wednesday, to discuss opposition strategy for the Presidential polls scheduled next month.
Senior leaders Mallikarjuna Kharge, Jairam Ramesh and Randeep Singh Surjewala will represent the Congress at the meeting called by the Trinamool Congress leader, it is learnt.
This time, Telangana Chief Minister Chandrashekhar Rao, or KCR, is part of efforts to gather opposition forces to take on the BJP jointly.
The polls are based on an electoral college comprising votes of MLAs and MPs. Vote value of each MLA depends on the population of the state and the number of assembly seats. Total strength of the electoral college, thus, is 10,86,431. A candidate with more than 50 per cent votes wins. The NDA is 13,000 votes short.
Before Ms Banerjee kicked of her initiative for opposition unity for the presidential polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi had reportedly tasked Mr Kharge with this task.
After Ms Banerjee wrote the letter on Saturday, there were questions over cohesiveness in the opposition. The Trinamool is reported to have then reached out to the Congress, which is now sending Mr Kharge and two other leaders for Ms Banerjee's meeting.
Relations between the Congress and Mamata Banerjee have a long history of ups and downs right from when she left the Congress to set up her own party 25 years ago.