Pune: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar said he would be meeting Friday opposition leaders in Delhi to forge cooperation among them. This decision coming just after the meeting between Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav will definitely be significant.
Efforts by some opposition parties to forge an alliance against the BJP have begun over the past few days. Kharge and Rahul met Communist Party of India’s (CPI) D Raja here Thursday. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal too had met Kumar.
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Queried about his absence from Wednesday’s meeting, Pawar, a stalwart of the opposition, said he was asked to join the meeting in Delhi but was unable to do so as he had work in Pune.
“I will meet all of them as I am travelling to Delhi tomorrow. We (opposition) will all cooperate and offer (each other) support,” Pawar told reporters here.
Pawar however, refused to answer questions on speculation about his party colleague Ajit Pawar joining the BJP.
Former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is at the centre of such speculation after he was unreachable for some time April 7 and also due to his comments on the debate surrounding the university degree of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.