NCP leader and MP Praful Patel took a dig at the meeting of opposition parties in Patna last month.. Addressing the party meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday he said"I went to the joint opposition meeting in Patna with Sharad Pawar, and I felt like laughing when I saw the scene there. There were 17 opposition parties there, 7 of them have only 1 MP in the Lok Sabha and there is one party that has 0 MPs." " They claim they will bring change... This decision (of joining NDA) we have taken is for the nation and our party and not for personal gain," he said.
#WATCH | NCP leader Praful Patel at MET Bandra, says "When we could accept the ideology of Shiv Sena, then what is the objection in going with BJP? We have joined this alliance as an independent entity. Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah went with BJP in Jammu and Kashmir and… pic.twitter.com/hRZhroIyu6
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Praful Patel, a Rajya Sabha MP, has been a close associate of Pawar and was appointed working president of NCP last month. He was a minister in the Congress-led UPA government along with Pawar.
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