Javed Akhtar joins meeting at Pawar's home
June 22, 2021  18:15
TMC leader Yashwant Sinha arrives for meeting.
TMC leader Yashwant Sinha arrives for meeting.
Leaders of several opposition parties including the Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Left parties assembled at Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar's residence in New Delhi on Tuesday to hold a meeting, amid the heightened speculation about the possibility of a third front against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Former finance minister and Trinamool Congress leader Yashwant Sinha, SP's Ghanshyam Tiwari, RLD president Jayant Chaudhary, Sushil Gupta from the AAP, Binoy Viswam from the Communist Party of India and Nilotpal Basu from the Communist Party of India-Marxist arrived at Pawar's residence to attend the meeting.

National Conference (NC) leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah, former Congress leader Sanjay Jha and former Janata Dal-United leader Pavan Verma also came to participate in the meeting.

Other prominent personalities who arrived at Pawar's residence to attend the meeting were Justice A P Shah, Javed Akhtar and K C Singh.

The meeting was still on.

Earlier in the day, a senior NCP leader, on the condition of anonymity, said though Pawar is hosting the meeting, it has been organised by Sinha, who is the convenor of the Rashtra Manch.

Sinha formed the Rashtra Manch, a political action group, in 2018 that targeted the BJP-led government's policies.   -- PTI
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