Gautam Adani, the billionaire and chairman of the Adani Group, was part of political talks between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Nationalist Congress Party five years ago, Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said in an interview with Newslaundry and The News Minute. At the end of that episode, Ajit Pawar defected to the BJP and was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister.

Speaking to journalist Sreenivasan Jain ahead of the elections in Maharashtra, Ajit, who was talking about the meetings that took place with the BJP around November 2019, said, “It has been five years. Everyone knows where the meeting happened; that it happened in Delhi at a businessman’s house. Everyone knows it…All of it happened five years ago... Yes, there were five meetings.........

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