NEW DELHI: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today presided over a meeting of opposition leaders to plan a joint strategy for the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament and work towards opposition unity to take on the BJP.
The meeting, held at the Parliament Library Building, is seen as part of efforts to galvanise support of all 17 parties which had come together during the presidential and vice presidential polls against the ruling party.
Top leaders including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, senior party leaders Ahmed Patel, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge; NCP chief Sharad Pawar; National Conference President Farooq Abdullah; RJD’s Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav, TMC’s Derek O’Brien, CPI national secretary D Raja and SP’s Ramgopal Yadav attended the meeting.
This is first meeting chaired by Gandhi after relinquishing the post of Congress president last year. (AGENCIES)
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