Mamata Banerjee meets Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Rout

Banerjee, who had arrived the national capital on Monday night, said meeting Sharad Pawar was a "routine visit."

She is on a four-day visit to Delhi to meet different leaders to discuss the current political situaion.

The Trinamool Congress chief is also expected to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

The West Bengal chief minister termed it a "routine visit".

However, the Trinamool chief's meeting with Pawar assumes significance given her increasing efforts to reach out to non-BJP political leaders in recent times, which is being seen as an attempt to play a key role in national politics by  forming a united opposition grouping before next year's Lok Sabha elections.

According to reports, Banerjee, a bitter critic of the BJP and Narendra Modi, is  expected to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi as well.

She had recently called for unity among all the anti-BJP forces to defeat the saffron party in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Banerjee had recently met  TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who called on her to discuss the process of setting up a federal front against the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre.

Her growing pitch for stitching together all non-BJP forces became evident