For 1st time ever, Uddhav Thackeray to attend a meet led by Sonia Gandhi

MUMBAI: For the first time ever, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray will attend a meeting led by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday.
A video-conference meeting of all members of UPA has been convened by the Congress party to discuss issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic and problems faced by migrant labourers in various states.
Shiv Sena is not a part of UPA nationally but gives the Congress-led coalition company on the opposition benches since quitting the BJP-led NDA government last year.Shiv Sena has 18 Lok Sabha members.
Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut said that both him and the chief minister would be attending the meeting.
Thackeray, after his swearing-in as Maharashtra CM in November, had visited Delhi in February and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Gandhi.
His son, Aaditya, who is guardian minister of Mumbai suburban district, had met Gandhi twice, first to invite her to the chief minister’s swearing-in ceremony and a second time — when he also met her son Rahul — after Shiv Sena had skipped a UPA meeting called to discuss the CAA and NRC issues in January.
Sources said NCP chief Sharad Pawar and a few senior politicians of Congress from the state would also attend the meeting.