Sharad Pawar meets PM Modi with a group of farmers

The last time Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the meeting had generated a lot of political buzz.

Today, after a few years, Sharad Pawar, a leading light of the Opposition alliance, again called on Prime Minister Modi at his Parliament House office.

He was accompanied by some farmers from the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, with the Prime Minister's office putting out images of the meeting that looked warm and congenial on the face.

This is the first meeting between Sharad Pawar and Modi since the complete rout of the opposition Mahha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra Assembly polls.

Sharad Pawar's NCP(SP) is a major constituent of the Aghadi which lost comprehensively at the hands of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance coalition in the state.

Pawar and other constituents of the Aghadi have been alleging Tampering of the electronic voting machines as a possible reason behind the Opposition debacle in the state.

The Agadi partners have even approached the election commission in this matter.

The Pawar and Modi meeting at the height of this distrust is important.