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NCP skips opposition meeting

NCP skips opposition meeting

| | 11 Aug 2017, 07:04 pm
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IBNS) : Giving further trouble to the opposition camp after Nitish Kumar's volte face,Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday skipped a meeting called by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, reports said.

This came  amid an atmosphere of distrust after NCP claimed to have supplied the winning vote to  Ahmed Patel in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha election, which Sonia Gandhi's close aide refused to readily buy. 

The meeting was called to discuss opposition unity and prepare a  strategy against the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government.

Besides Sonia Ganhi and other top Congress leaders, representatives of the National Conference, Trinamool Congress, CPI (M) and the CPI were present at the meeting.

Though the NCP had claimed to have voted in favour of the Congress candidate in Gujarat, the party feels it has reasons to be sceptic since the lone lawmaker of JDU in Gujarat also made the same claim and the number that went in favour of Ahmed Patel does not accommodate both. 

On Thursday, talking  to NDTV,  Patel said, "Who voted for me is suspense", implying that he was not convinced of Mr Pawar's claim.

 

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