Will Narayan Rane join NCP after 'courtesy' meet with Sharad Pawar?

A five-minute meeting between Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and former Congress leader Narayan Rane at the latter's residence in Kankavli (in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra) has sparked off speculation about Rane's possible return to the Opposition-fold ahead of the 2019 General Elections. Rane, who was chief minister when he was in the Shiv Sena, joined the Congress and quit the party in 2017 and floated the Maharashtra Swabhimani Paksha. While Pawar and Rane maintained it was a “courtesy” meeting and Pawar had time only for coconut water and that there was no discussion on joining hands, party insiders said more