The surprise development is being seen as an effort by SP to recover its electoral base after its disappointing performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
"It (BJP) is not scoring on ideology, it is scoring on whipping up communal passions, emotive passions," said Yechury.
PM-designate Narendra Modi also visited Sadaiv Atal Samadhi, the memorial of late PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, along with BJP president Amit Shah and other party leaders
Sharma, the leader from Chambal region but fielded from Bundelkhand area, won by a huge margin of 4,92,382 votes against Congress candidate Maharani Kavita Singh ‘Natiraja’
Muslim clerics and academics in West Bengal are unhappy with CM Mamata Banerjee’s statements on votebank politics post Lok Sabha elections 2019
The PM-designate called Mukherjee a "statesman" and said he met him to seek his blessings
Among those present were Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Deputy CM Sachin Pilot; Congress is expected to convene another CWC meeting in the next four days when the leadership issue is likely to be discussed
Dhananjay Kudtarkar has been booked under Section 354 (A) 1 (4) of the IPC and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act
The Ministry of External Affairs said that during the conversation PM Modi referred to his earlier suggestion of jointly fighting poverty.
The BJP won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with a massive majority, bagging 303 out of 542 seats. The NDA won a total of 351 seats. On the other hand, the Congress won just 52 seats out of a total 91 of the UPA.
