 "Senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, RJD leader Lalu Prasad, Samajwadi Party's Ramgopal Yadav, NCP's Praful Patel and other opposition leaders in a meeting to discuss the strategy")
On Tuesday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah has put a three-member panel to reach out to other parties, including the Opposition, to build consensus for the presidential poll. The result of the panel members having worked the phone to talk to non-National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parties for the past 24 hours was evident at today's strategy meet of the Opposition.
If Shah's objective was to sow seeds of confusion among Opposition ranks, it seemed to have the hit bullseye, at least for the present. The meeting of Opposition leaders was marred by sundry parties issuing caveats on how they
