After Budget session washout, Oppn is trying various strategies to unite

Congress could be veering around to the view that an attack on the government, based on charges of cronyism, may be neither lasting nor forceful enough to ensure buy-in from the rest of Opposition

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar’s statements last week, ostensibly in defence of Adani Group, threw the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Opposition in a tizzy. His remarks could not have come at a worse time: at the height of demand for a joint parliamentary committee to investigate government-Adani linkages which the government rejected and because of which Parliament was paralysed.

Pawar said the demand was misplaced, especially after the Supreme Court (SC) had set up a committee. He also said that efforts to unify the Opposition and set it against the government based on the activities of a business