The chief of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Sharad Pawar Wednesday called for opposition unity in the country ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha Election. Pawar today said the parties can look at joining hands and form a Common Minimum Programme.

Advocating Opposition unity, Pawar was reported as saying: "Can consider contesting elections together under the Common Minimum Programme."

It may be recalled that the last non-BJP government in power at the Centre was from 2004-2014 for two terms in the form of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance. Manmohan Singh was the PM of the UPA-1 and UPA-2 governments which also functioned on the basis of common minimum programmes.

(With inputs from agencies)