There was no prominent Congress leader in the meeting at Sharad Pawar’s house. People are wondering why Congress was not taking part in the meeting which was supposed to be against the regime of the BJP.
If the rumours are to be believed, Prashant himself could be the representative of the Congress and that Rahul could have given him the free hand to negotiate with the group of the Opposition leaders.
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar here today, a day after leaders of eight opposition parties gathered at Pawar’s residence and discussed various issues facing the country.
The meetings with Pawar has fuelled speculations about the possibility of opposition parties coming together to form a third front against the BJP.
Sharad Pawar on Tuesday hosted a meeting of the leaders of eight opposition parties including the Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Left at his residence in Delhi.
However, leaders who took part in that discussions asserted that it was a “non-political” meeting of like-minded individuals by Rashtriya Manch that was floated by former finance minister and TMC vice-president Yashwant Sinha along with others.
Before the opposition leaders’ meeting on Tuesday, Pawar also chaired NCP’s national executive meeting the same day and had “a detailed discussion” with his party leaders on its “future policies”, its role in the next Lok Sabha polls and current national issues.
The opposition party leaders’ meet at Pawar’s residence was attended by National Conference’s leader Omar Abdullah, SP’s Ghanshyam Tiwari, RLD president Jayant Chaudhary, Sushil Gupta from the AAP, Binoy Viswam from the CPI, Nilotpal Basu from CPI-M and TMC vice-president Yashwant Sinha among others.
Former Congress leader Sanjay Jha and Janata Dal-United’s (JD-U) ex-leader Pavan Verma also participated in the meeting.
