NCP Leaders Meet PM Modi Amidst Discussions on FCRA Bill and Delimitation

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) party leaders will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second time in 20 days. Pawar and the PM met for the first time during the monsoon session of Parliament on 22 July. Sharad Pawar, NCP (SP) working president and Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule were also present in this meeting. NCP SP leaders will meet the PM once again on 10 August. It is believed that Supriya Sule will meet with PM Modi today. This meeting will be held at a time when the central government is bringing a bill on FCRA and delimitation. NCP SP has rejected the current draft of the FCRA bill for the time being. The party says that this bill should be returned and submitted to the Joint Committee of Parliament. On delimitation, Sule has already said that if 50 percent of the seats are increased in all the states, then the party will support it. However, she had also said that without this reference, she will not be a part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alone.