Sharad Pawar will start uniting the opposition from today
In a major initiative, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar will take steps for opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. NCP national spokesperson and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik said that in the first round, Pawar will meet leaders of some political parties and other prominent experts from various fields at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday evening.
Political leaders include Yashwant Sinha of Trinamool Congress, former JD-U leader Pavan Varma, Sanjay Singh of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Farooq Abdullah of National Conference (NC), D. Raja of Communist Party of India (CPI) and others. can be.
In addition, Justice A. P. Singh (Retd.), Javed Akhtar, K.T.S. Tulsi, Karan Thapar, Ashutosh, A. Majeed Memon, Vandana Chavan, S.Y. Qureshi, KC. Singh, Sanjay Jha, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Colin Gonsalves, Ghanshyam Tiwari and Pritish Nandy, among others.
Earlier, Sharad Pawar met election strategist Prashant Kishor for the second time in ten days. The buzz is that the Kishor-Pawar meeting could be part of a bigger plan aimed at uniting like-minded parties ahead of the next general elections.
Though the agenda of the meeting of the opposition parties is not clear, it is in the backdrop of the Prime Minister’s meeting on Jammu and Kashmir. Invitations have been given to 15 opposition parties, but few of them have so far confirmed participation. The Congress has not said yes to the meeting yet.
It will be interesting to see whether Congress will attend the meeting or not. There has been no confirmation from the Congress till noon, but 7 parties have confirmed their participation in the meeting. Ahead of the meeting of the opposition parties, the NCP had called a meeting of its national office bearers on Tuesday morning.
