Ahmed Patel in focus

Congress leader Ahmed Patel, political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, called up leaders of Opposition parties including the Left parties, the Trinamool Congress and other regional parties on Wednesday night to drum up support to protest the “insult” meted out to former prime minister Manmohan Singh by PM Narendra Modi in the Rajya Sabha earlier that evening. What intrigued Opposition members was that it was Patel, who reached out to them. Usually, it is Ghulam Nabi Azad, leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, who coordinates with Opposition parties, and in consultation with Congress Vice- president Rahul Gandhi,