New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will skip the all-party meeting that has been scheduled today to discuss the Manipur situation while CPI-M is yet to decide the leaders who would attend it. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the meeting at 3 pm at Parliament Library Building. The Ministry has invited most of the political parties at the meeting.
Pawar has informed that he wanted to attend the meeting but would be unable to do so due to some important pre-scheduled programme. “Although I wanted to attend this meeting, but due to some important prior commitment, it would not be possible for me to do so,” Pawar said in a letter addressed to Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai. Pawar has assigned two of his party leaders including NCP general secretary Narendra Verma and Manipur NCP chief Soran Iboyaima Singh to attend the meeting on his behalf.
However, it is still undecided as to which leader from the CPI-M would attend the meeting. A senior leader from CPI-M told ETV Bharat that the party is yet to decide who will attend the meeting. “We have our politburo meeting on today and tomorrow. So, it’s not yet decided who will attend today’s all-party meeting on Manipur situation,” the leader said adding that CPI-M will demand resignation of Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh at the meeting.
Congress general secretary Pawan Khera will represent the party at the meeting. An opposition leader said they were hopeful that the meeting will come out with a resolution to end the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur.
