Sharad Pawar holds first meet with PM Modi since MVA loss, gifts him pomegranates from Maharashtra | India News

Pawar with Modi and a group of Maharashtra farmers. He had recently written to the PM, inviting him to the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan.

NEW DELHI: NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar called on PM Narendra Modi Wednesday, weeks after the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was trounced in the assembly elections in Maharashtra by the BJP-headed Mahayuti.
Pawar, along with two farmers from Phaltan in western Maharashtra, met the PM in his office in Parliament House and presented him with a box of pomegranates from their farm.
Pawar had recently written to the PM, inviting him to inaugurate the 98th Marathi Sahitya Sammelan scheduled to be held at Talkatora Stadium in the national capital in Feb.
“I did not broach the topic of Sahitya Sammelan,” Pawar said after the meeting.
In the Maharashtra assembly elections last month, the Congress-NCP(SP)-Shiv Sena (UBT) alliance – MVA – faced a humiliating defeat at the hands of BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP’s Mahayuti bloc.
The Mahayuti won 235 seats, while the MVA was restricted to 46 in the 288-member assembly.