NCP (SP) MPs meet PM Modi; discuss Maharashtra issues

A delegation of NCP (SP) MPs, led by the party's working president Supriya Sule, on Monday, August 10, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed various issues related to Maharashtra.
All eight Lok Sabha MPs of the NCP (SP) were present during the meeting with the prime minister.
"We have discussed Maharashtra issues," Sule told PTI.
Sources said the NCP (SP) MPs raised with the prime minister issues related to their respective constituencies, such as drought, onion prices, pollution in the Chandrabhaga river among others.
The contentious FCRA Amendments Bill did not figure in the meeting, which lasted for about 15 minutes.
Sule has been opposing the FCRA Bill in its present form. On Saturday, she said one cannot always view foreign funding with suspicion, and urged the Centre to either withdraw it or refer it to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).
On July 22, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, along with his MP daughter, Sule, met the prime minister.
After that meeting with PM Modi, Pawar had said he and Sule discussed the students' demands regarding the NEET paper leaks, farmers' problems, water management and issues concerning the education sector with the prime minister.
"The Honourable Prime Minister gave assurances of positive and concrete measures on all these issues," Pawar had said in a post in Marathi on 'X'.
The NCP (SP) is currently a part of the opposition INDIA bloc.
(With inputs from PTI)