The Andhra Pradesh chief minister is expected to meet Congress President Rahul Gandhi later in the day.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu met National Congress Party President Sharad Pawar and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah in New Delhi on Thursday in order to unite opposition parties to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha elections next year, PTI reported.
“We decided to meet in Delhi to chalk out a plan to protect the future of the nation,” ANI quoted the Telugu Desam Party chief as saying. He also met senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Naidu is likely to call on Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday afternoon to discuss the matter, said unidentified Telugu Desam Party officials.
“Political compulsions” will force non-BJP parties to come together to form a third front, Naidu had said last week.
Naidu, who quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in March, has tied up with the Congress to contest the Assembly Elections in the state next month. At a party event in Amaravati on Wednesday, Naidu had said the policies pursued by the BJP posed a threat to democracy in the country, IANS reported. “I have taken the responsibility to save the country from this threat,” he had said. “It is the duty of all to save the country.”
Naidu had last week met Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Admi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, Loktantrik Janata Dal chief Sharad Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha in the national Capital.
After the meeting on Thursday, Sharad Pawar said that institutions like the Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate and the Reserve Bank of India were under assault in the country, The Print reported. “If we collectively work to save democracy, we can save the institutions also,” he said.
Last month, Pawar had said that a national Opposition alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections was unlikely. But he added that he was trying to bring parties opposed to the BJP together on a common platform.
After the meeting on Thursday, Sharad Pawar said that institutions like the Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate and the Reserve Bank of India were under assault in the country, The Print reported. “If we collectively work to save democracy, we can save the institutions also,” he said.
Last month, Pawar had said that a national Opposition alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections was unlikely. But he added that he was trying to bring parties opposed to the BJP together on a common platform.
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