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January 04, 2019 11:54

Thursday was about new year lunches in New Delhi. Union minister Piyush Goyal hosted one, attended mostly by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokespersons and journalists, while Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel hosted another.

Patel's lunch turned out to be a gettogether of the leaders of the so-called mahagatbandhan, or grand alliance. Senior leaders of nearly all the Opposition parties attended it, both to show the political significance of their breaking bread together, and also for the spread.

Several were seen taking repeated helpings of Moradabadi dal. Those from the Opposition parties who attended were Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah, Ahmed Patel, Sitaram Yechury, Satish Chandra Mishra, Misa Bharati, Jaya Bachchan, Dinesh Trivedi and M K Kanimozhi.

-- Business Standard

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