NEW DELHI, Aug. 30 -- A flurry of political activities, starting from the visit of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to Delhi in the last week of July, took place in July-August 2021 in view of forging opposition unity to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Prior to the visit of Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar the NCP supremo had convened a meeting in Delhi on 22nd July in which many leaders of non-Congress opposition parties took part.
According to Sharad Pawar, it was a non-political meeting of like-minded individuals of Rashtriya Manch floated by former finance minister and TMC leader Yashwant Sinha. But the focus of the meeting was the current political situation in the country and how to respond to it.
In the last...