Leaders of 20 opposition political parties attended a dinner that United Progress Alliance head Sonia Gandhi hosted for them at her official residence on Tuesday evening.
Last week, Gandhi, longtime and former head of the Congress party, had said she was hosting the dinner for “like-minded parties” which needed to forget their rivalries to come together for the country's sake.
This dinner diplomacy came days before the Congress party's national plenary session, its first under new chief Rahul Gandhi, her son.
The dinner diplomacy was reminiscent of the lunch she had hosted for opposition leaders on February 5, 2004, after

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