Maha: Anil Deshmukh questions Tatkare's changing stand on NCP merger talks

Nagpur, Nov 6 (UNI) Senior Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader and former Maharashtra Home Minister, Anil Deshmukh, today questioned the change in stand of NCP leader Sunil Tatkare over the proposed merger of the two factions of the party, asking who had pressured him earlier to deny that such discussions were taking place. Deshmukh said several meetings had been held during the lifetime of late Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar to explore the possibility of bringing the two NCP factions together. He revealed that an important meeting was held at the residence of senior NCP leader Jayant Patil, where…