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Mission 2019: Sonia Gandhi hosts dinner for Opposition parties

The dinner diplomacy was reminiscent of the lunch she had hosted for opposition leaders on February 5, 2004, after the Atal Behari Vajpayee government had cut short the duration of that Lok Sabha

United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandh with Opposition party leaders pose for a group photograph at a dinner hosted  at her residence 10, Janpath in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
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United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandh with Opposition party leaders pose for a group photograph at a dinner hosted at her residence 10, Janpath in New Delhi. Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi
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