Shiv Se♔na (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Friday played down NCP chief Sharad Pawar's meeting with industrialist Gautam Adani, saying that political leaders do meet people from the corporate sector.
The Ad🌌ani Group chairman met🐻 the Nationalist Congress Party chief a day before.
“Sharad Pawar or for that matter every big po🔯litical leader meets people from the corporate sector,” Raut said in response to a question by reporters here.
The meeting assumed some significance as earlier this month Pawar had said th🌸e Supreme Court-appointed panel will be more useful than a Joint Parliamentary Commitee for looking into US-based Hindenburg Research's allegations against the Adani group.
Th🏅e NCP chief, thus, appeared to be breaking rank🤡s with opposition leaders who have been demanding a JPC on the Adani issue. Later Pawar said he will not oppose the demand for a JPC.
Raut, incidentally, also met Pawar after the latter's meeting with Adani.
“We keep meeting, and Pawa༺r is a key leader of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (the alliance of Sena (UBT), NCP and Congress). What is surprising if we or Congress leaders meet Pawar. We had a discussion on many issues in the country and state,” 🌄the Rajya Sabha MP said.
