“Felt like laughing”: Praful talks about Patna ‘opposition unity’ meet

Former Union Minister Praful Patel, who is with the NCP group led by Ajit Pawar, on Wednesday took a dig at the meeting of opposition parties in Patna last month, saying he felt “like laughing” when he saw the scene where seven of 17 opposition parties present have only one MP in the Lok Sabha and there was a party which has no MP. Patel, who was speaking at the meeting of NCP leaders called by the Ajit Pawar group at Mumbai Education Trust Bandra, said they have taken the decision of joining NDA in Maharashtra for the nation “and our party and not for personal gain”. The crisis in Nationalist Congress Party escalated on Wednesday with the two groups holding simultaneous meetings in a show of strength. The NCP led by Sharad Pawar is holding a meeting of its members at YB Chavan Auditorium in Mumbai while Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is at a meeting of NCP MPs, MLAs, MLCs, district heads and state delegates at Mumbai Education Trust (MET) Bandra.