Agatha Sangma meets Sharad Pawar, offers to quit government

NEW DELHI: Agatha Sangma, who had campaigned for her father PA Sangma in the presidential polls, has offered to quit as MoS for rural development. NCP sources said Agatha met party chief Sharad Pawar ahead of a meeting of the party leaders and expressed her readiness to quit the government.

NCP leader and Union minister Praful Patel said she had met Pawar and told him that she would fully follow the party line. Agatha is a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura, a seat represented by her father several times.