Addressing reporters after the meeting, Pawar indicated that the Karnataka template needs to be implemented in other states, and for that, like-minded parties will have to work on a common minimum programme (CMP).
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja on Sunday met NCP president Sharad Pawar at his residence in Mumbai and discussed providing an alternative to BJP, a meeting coming a day after the saffron party's drubbing in Karnataka elections.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India D Raja said that Karnataka had “rejected the politics of hatred and divide through a decisive mandate,” reacting to Congress’s victory.
Pawar said efforts should be made to reach out to leaders such as TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, who has already declared that she will not ally with any party for the 2024 elections, and Kejriwal.
As his party loses national status, CPI general secretary on the way forward: "We have to take up long-term as well as short-term ideological, political issues, address questions of class, caste and patriarchy, focus on issues of livelihood. build a broad platform"