However, Pawar earlier today said that the people’s mandate has asked his party to sit in the opposition and it will do it.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar will meet his party MLAs in Mumbai today before the meeting with Sonia Gandhi, though he downplayed the Opposition’s meeting.(File Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of the Opposition on Monday in the wake of party’s resurgent performance in Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections to plan out Opposition strategy and gather support on Congress’ nationwide protests against the Centre on economic slowdown, unemployment and farm distress.
The Winter Session of Parliament will start from November 18 and will go on till December 13.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar who is flowing down to Delhi on Sunday will attend the meeting and they are likely to discuss the situation in Maharashtra where the BJP and the Shiv Sena are at loggerheads after the results for the Assembly Elections were declared, a week back. The Shiv Sena, adamant on getting equal partnership in government formation, wants 2.5 years term for the Chief Minister’s post from each party. BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis has already ruled it out and with each day the impasse seems to get denser.
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However, Pawar earlier today said that the people’s mandate has asked his party to sit in the opposition and it will do it. Pawar’s comments come amid talks about the possibility of NDA constituent Shiv Sena forming government in Maharashtra with support from the NCP and the Congress. He also called the power tussle over the top post as “childish”.
NCP chief will meet his party MLAs in Mumbai today before the meeting with Sonia Gandhi, though he downplayed the Opposition’s meeting.
Earlier, on Thursday, Sharad Pawar had a series of meetings with Congress leaders, including former Chief Ministers Ashok Chavan and Prithviraj Chavan, and they discussed the ongoing BJP-Sena power tussle.
However, both the parties have not revealed their cards except many second-rung leaders advocating a Sena-headed government supported by the NCP-Congress.
Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Congress has also stated that it intends to play the role of the opposition in Maharashtra. However, it hinted that it could offer “support” to a Shiv Sena-led government.
Congress wants the Sena to openly walk out from the alliance and then seek open support from the opposition.
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