NEW DELHI: West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee , one of the key movers in the opposition unity effort against BJP, will be back in the Capital in the last week of August as a meeting of the 'federal front' is planned to chalk out strategy to take on the saffron party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi is expected to attend the meeting of 17-odd parties on August 30. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who has joined the anti-BJP front after quitting the NDA in March, could also attend, sources said.

Banerjee is expected to be he re by August 28 as the parties are also planning to take a joint delegation to the Election Commission with a memorandum seeking a return to ballot papers for the 2019 polls. The draft for the memorandum has been prepared and senior Congress leaders are finetuning it with inputs from other parties. With four assembly elections coming up at the end of the year, the campaign is expected to take off in right earnest after the festival season gets over.

Apart from the campaign against EVMs, the parties will decide on issues to be raised against the Modi government like the Rafale deal, the NRC in Assam etc.

