A meeting today at veteran politician Sharad Pawar's house, which drew outsized attention over reports of Third Front manoeuvres ahead of the 2024 polls, featured eight parties. Speaking to the media after the meet, Majeed Memon, a leader of Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party said, "The meeting was called by Yashwant Sinha, not Sharad Pawar, this was not a political meet."