The National Congress Party on Saturday held a review meeting to deliberate upon the reasons behind the party’s poor show in Maharashtra in recently held national polls. The meeting held at Sharad Pawar’s residence in Mumbai.
The top brasses of the party reviewed the shortcomings of the Sharad Pawar-led Party. The party apart from reviewing its bad performance is expected to discuss its future course of action, especially about the coming State Polls in Maharashtra which is slated for November later this year.
The meeting is currently underway, with it’s Boss Sharad Pawar chairing it.
Maharashtra: Earlier visuals of NCP leaders arriving for party's core committee meeting, in Mumbai. Sharad Pawar and other senior leader are present at the meeting. pic.twitter.com/KQuUzbkEog
— ANI (@ANI) June 1, 2019
The decision to call an emergency meeting came a day after Congress President Rahul Gandhi met Pawar in his residence in the national capital.
NCP Chief, however, said that both he along with Rahul Gandhi held a discussion over the upcoming State Polls in Maharashtra and Drought Situation in the state. Pawar took to twitter and shared the picture of the meet.
He, in a tweet, said, Congress President Mr. @RahulGandhi met up with me today at my residence in Delhi. We discussed matters pertaining to the forthcoming Vidhan Sabha Elections and the drought situation in Maharashtra”.
Congress President Mr. @RahulGandhi met up with me today at my residence in Delhi. We discussed matters pertaining to the forthcoming Vidhan Sabha Elections and the drought situation in Maharashtra. pic.twitter.com/SUQHzjAbOB
— Sharad Pawar (@PawarSpeaks) May 30, 2019
Both – Congress and NCP – have forged an alliance in the state to national polls. However, the alliance faced a humiliating defeat by the BJP–Shiv Sena combine. In the state that sends 48 MPs to the Lok Sabha Polls, NCP-Congress could only bag 5 Lok Sabha Seats with NCP winning 4 seats while one seat won by the Indian National Congress.
While NCP even failed to score in Maval Lok Sabha Seat from where Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar was making his electoral debut. Ajit Pawar had made Maval Lok Sabha Seat a prestigious battle for the party.
Bharatiya Janata Party along with its ally Shiv Sena swept the polls in Maharashtra by bagging 41 seats out of the total 48 Lok Sabha Seats on the state.
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