Yashwant Sinha arrives at Sharad Pawar's meeting

June 22, 2021 16:15

And so it begins.

TMC leader Yashwant Sinha, lyricist Javed Akhtar, Rashtriya Lokdal President Jayant Chaudhary and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah arrive at the residence of NCP chief Sharad Pawar in Delhi.

CPI MP Binoy Viswam who is also at the meeting says, "It is a platform of all secular, democratic Left forces against a most hated govt that has failed. The country needs a change. The people are up for a change."

Several prominent political leaders and eminent persons including Pawan Verma, Sanjay Singh, D Raja, Justice AP Singh, KTS Tulsi and Karan Thapar are among those expected to attend today's meeting.

Veteran politician Sharad Pawar is "not hosting a third front meeting" today, it was clarified hours before what now appears to be a gathering of politicians and intellectuals to "debate current events".

Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, a former BJP leader who recently joined the Trinamool Congress, had asked Sharad Pawar to meet members of his "Rashtra Manch", a political action group he set up in 2018.

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