Our stance of not joining hands with BJP has always been clear: Sharad Pawar
Pune. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar said on Saturday that his party’s stand of not joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has always been clear and even if any suggestion came to the contrary, he did not accept it. . Pawar gave this statement in the press conference here. His statement came at a time when his nephew and rebel NCP leader Ajit Pawar had targeted him a day earlier. Sharad Pawar said, “Even if someone suggested that we should support BJP contrary to our stand, (still) many people in the party including me did not agree with that (suggestion).
Our stand of not going with BJP has been very clear. Taking a jibe at Ajit Pawar, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that if someone taking oath of office early in the morning is claiming that it is the party’s policy, then that person “should not be taken seriously”. ‘ On Ajit Pawar’s announcement that his faction will contest from Baramati Lok Sabha seat – which is currently represented by Supriya Sule – Sharad Pawar said that in a democracy anyone is free to contest from anywhere. The Ajit Pawar faction, which joined the BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra in July this year, has earlier claimed that Sharad Pawar too was once in favor of an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. In the year 2019, Ajit Pawar took oath as Deputy Chief Minister early in the morning, along with Devendra Fadnavis took oath as Chief Minister.
However, due to lack of majority, the Fadnavis-Ajit Pawar government fell within four days. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar had on Friday claimed at a conference of his faction in Karjat that the Sharad Pawar-led group was approaching him for reconciliation and a meeting for the purpose was being held on August 12 at industrialist Atul Chordia’s Pune residence. Was kept at the residence. Ajit Pawar had asked that if senior leader Pawar did not like the decision to join the Shiv Sena-BJP government, then why did he call such a meeting.
