File photo of Sharad Pawar (PTI)
The Kishor-Pawar meeting is coincidentally taking place at a time when top Shiv Sena leaders have gone on record stating that their relationship with PM Narendra Modi was not broken even though they are not politically together now.
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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) patriarch Sharad Pawar will hold a meeting of non-Congress opposition parties in Delhi on Tuesday, a day after his second meeting with poll strategist Prashant Kishor in two weeks fuelled rumours of a joint opposition attack on the BJP under ‘Mission 2024’.
The meeting of the Rashtra Manch, which was formed by turncoat Yashwant Sinha in 2018, against the policies of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government will be held in Delhi on Tuesday at 4pm at Pawar’s residence. He will be participating in the meeting for the first time.
Kishor and Pawar met in Delhi, days after their last meeting at the NCP leader’s Mumbai home on June 11.
The Kishor-Pawar meeting is coincidentally taking place at a time when top Shiv Sena leaders have gone on record stating that their relationship with PM Narendra Modi was not broken even though they are not politically together now.
The discussions between the leaders are said to be around propping up a joint opposition candidate to challenge PM Modi.
Yashwant Sinha, who founded the Rashtra Manch, is also considered close to Prashant Kishore who is said to have scripted, TMC’s win in West Bengal. Moreover, TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee’s approval of the manch is public knowledge.
Added to this, erstwhile TMC leader Dinesh Trivedi has been participating in earlier meetings.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had talked about the need for an alliance of opposition parties at the national level. Raut had said that he had spoken Sharad Pawar on this.
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