Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived on Sunday with two former presidents of India and two former prime ministers to discuss the country’s response to the unprecedented crisis over the outbreak of coronovirus, officials described the development as personal Manmohan Singh.
Officials said that Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil are two former presidents who received the Prime Minister’s call, while Manmohan Singh of Congress and Deve Gowda of JD (S) had contacted two former Prime Ministers over the phone. Who did not want to be named?
The details of the consultations were not immediately known, but are said to be consistent with the government’s efforts to build a broad-based consensus on efforts to fight Kovid-19 through a joint partnership strategy.
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PM Modi is also going to consult the leaders of the major political parties represented in Parliament in the all-party meeting to be held at a video conference on Wednesday.
Prime Minister was given to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party Patron Mulayam Singh, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav, Trinamool Congress Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD Supremo Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Telangana.
Chandrasekhar Rao, DMK chief MK Stalin and Shiromani Akali Dal mentor Parkash Singh Badal Manmohan Singh.
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The all-party meeting comes at a time when India is completing 11 days of the 21-day national lockout announced by the Prime Minister to disrupt the chain of transition and amid Prime Minister’s appeal to suggest a phased exit from the states is. Lockdown to mitigate against heavy economic losses while preventing a spike in infection.
The Prime Minister has often said that tackling the coronavirus epidemic will require a united response from the country and has held a few rounds of meetings with the Chief Ministers of the states, many of which are governed by opposition parties Manmohan Singh.
