Overview
- NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule and eight party MPs met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday at her daughter's reception in Delhi, and videos show Modi conversing with Sharad Pawar.
- MPs used the roughly 20-minute meeting to press constituency and Maharashtra issues, including requests on water supply, farmer distress and local transport and infrastructure projects.
- Congress urged NCP (SP) to press the Prime Minister to keep women’s reservation separate from any delimitation bill and to push for immediate implementation of a standalone reservation law.
- Supriya Sule reiterated that NCP (SP) will back a delimitation bill only if the party’s demands are included in the draft and she renewed calls to withdraw the proposed FCRA bill or refer it to a Joint Parliamentary Committee.
- Maharashtra leaders reacted sharply: BJP state figures welcomed the meeting while critics such as Shiv Sena (UBT) questioned the optics, and the episode adds pressure to negotiations over delimitation and alliance positions during Parliament’s monsoon session.