Cutting across party lines, a mixed group of political leaders assembled today under the banner of Rashtra Manch or National Forum, the apolitical platform launched by disgruntled BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha. While the 80-year-old former union minister has called it an apolitical body meant to highlight national issues that are being ignored by the government, it was seen as a dry run for unity among the fractured opposition, with representations from the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Sharad Pawar's NCP, RLD and Arvind Kejriwal's AAP.
