 New Delhi : Congress and NCP tonight projected a united strength in the backdrop of the recent meeting between Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray which had triggered a controversy.
"Relations between Congress and NCP are improving," senior Congress leader A K Antony told reporters here when asked about Pawar's meeting with Thackeray after Sena had threatened that it would not allow Australian players to play IPL cricket matches in Maharashtra.
Leaders of the two ruling parties had come together for the first meeting of the Congress-NCP Co-ordination Committee after their victory in the Maharashtra assembly polls late last year. NCP General Secretary Praful Patel said Shiv Sena and MNS were political opponents of both Congress and NCP. Asked about Pawar's meeting with Thackeray, Patel said the two leaders had discussed cricket and no other meaning should be read into it.
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