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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia's Bengaluru-Delhi flight made an emergency landing in Bhopal due to bad weather on Tuesday. Both of them were returning from the "Maha Manthan" of the opposition ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

According to news agency PTI, the aircraft is likely to take off for an onward journey at around 9:30 p.m.

"We are on the way to the airport after getting information about the emergency landing," senior Congress leader Shoba Oza said, as quoted by news agency PTI.

On Tuesday, 26 political parties from across the country, meeting in Bengaluru, decided to come together under the banner of India (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) to fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections against the BJP.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge made the announcement at a joint press conference following the deliberations.

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress head Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, Shiv Sena-UBT chief and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, and former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who spoke at the conference, pledged to defeat the BJP-led NDA and save the country.

Addressing reporters after the meeting, Kharge said: "This is a very important meeting to save democracy, and the Constitution. The meeting was convened in the interest of the country.

"We have come together, discussed various points and with one voice made a resolution."

"Our alliance will be called India. Earlier, we worked within the UPA. Now, the new name is the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (India). The hosting of the meeting in the state is a great achievement," he maintained.

There will be an 11-member co-ordination committee. It will be set up shortly, and names will be decided. There will be a secretariat for campaign management. The office will be in New Delhi.