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2024 elections: Nitish Kumar, Tejasvi Yadav meet Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray
Mumbai/IBNS: On Thursday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejasvi Yadav Thursday met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray here in their bid to cobble up an anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance at the national level.
Along with them, Janata Dal (United) national president and MP Rajiv Ranjan, Bihar assembly speaker Deveshchandra Thakur and minister Sanjay Kumar Jha were also present during the two separate meetings.
During both meetings, the deliberations centered around a plan regarding the role of leaders of various opposition parties as part of efforts to cobble up a grand opposition alliance against the BJP at the Centre ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections.
In the meeting with Pawar at his residence Silver Oak, his daughter MP Supriya Sule was also present. Pawar has extended support to Kumar's initiative to unite the opposition, sources present during the discussions said.
Welcomed the Chief Minister of Bihar Shri Nitish Kumar ji and deputy Chief Minister Shri Tejashwi Yadav ji at my Mumbai residence today. We had a brief discussion to strengthen the Opposition unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.@NitishKumar @yadavtejashwi @supriya_sule pic.twitter.com/dTx3cmjhoU
— Sharad Pawar (@PawarSpeaks) May 11, 2023
The Bihar delegation's meeting with Maharashtra leaders took place on the day when Supreme Court declined to restore the erstwhile Thackeray government even as it said the then Maharashtra Governor had no objective material, to call for a floor test in June 2022.
आज मुंबई में NCP के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष आदरणीय श्री @PawarSpeaks , बहन @supriya_sule तथा शिवसेना प्रमुख एवं महाराष्ट्र के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री श्री @OfficeofUT जी, भाई @AUThackeray व सांसद @rautsanjay61 जी से मा० मुख्यमंत्री श्री @NitishKumar जी के साथ मुलाकात में देश के वर्तमान… pic.twitter.com/GBfuaqrNgU
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) May 11, 2023
Kumar expressed solidarity with Thackeray, stating, “The court’s verdict rectifies the significant injustice done to Uddhav Thackeray. We stand united.”
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