Picture : Twitter / ANI
Nationalist Congress Party president and Maratha stalwart Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday, and both leaders held talks on a number of issues in a nearly hour-long meeting. It comes two days before the Monsoon session of Parliament begins of July 19 and runs till August 13.
The Prime Minister’s Office tweeted a picture of their meeting but shared no details about their talks.
In a tweet Pawar said, ‘Met the Hon. Prime Minister of our country Shri Narendra Modi. Had a discussion on various issues of national interest.’
Met the Hon. Prime Minister of our country Shri Narendra Modi. Had a discussion on various issues of national interest.@PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/AOp0wpXR8F
— Sharad Pawar (@PawarSpeaks) July 17, 2021
The 80 – year -old Pawar has respect across party lines . Before meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Piyush Goyal had met Pawar. While the Defence minister had briefed Pawar also a former defence minister, on the border row involving China, Goyal the new leader of government in Rajya Sabha had met him as part of the government’s outreach to opposition leaders before the Monsoon session starts.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar is in Delhi for the past 2 days & after being appointed as BJP’s Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, Piyush Goyal himself paid him courtesy call. Yesterday Sharad Pawar also met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Nawab Malik, NCP leader & Maharashtra Minister to ANI on Pawars meeting with Prime Minister Modi
Pawar is the architect of the Uddhav Thacekray led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra. The Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole has caused a stir with his recent comments. Patole in his latest remark said Pawar is the remote control of the MVA government.
Earlier it may be recalled that Congress leaders met National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to assure him that Congress chief Nana Patole’s statements that allegedly angered leaders in the alliance, would not be repeated. NCP sources informed that a few MVA leaders were angry with recent statements made by Patole about his party’s ‘growing influence in Maharashtra’. Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Chouhan, state party in-charge HK Patil and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat met Pawar at his residence in Silver Oak.
“Many leaders in Maha Vikas Aghadi were getting angry with Nana Patole’s controversial statements, so today HK Patil and other Congress leaders met Pawar Sahab and assured him that such rhetoric will not happen again,” NCP sources told ANI.
