NCP president Sharad Pawar asserted he’ll not align with the BJP and mentioned his meeting with politically estranged nephew Ajit Pawar was about family.
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday asserted he’ll not align with the BJP and as a substitute work in the direction of bringing about a change in 2024 when the Lok Sabha polls might be held as he sought to downplay his meeting with politically estranged nephew Ajit Pawar, saying it was about a family problem.
He sought to nix hypothesis that the Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT) had been engaged on a ‘Plan B’ to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with out his faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The Congress, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) are constituents of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). “The news of a ‘Plan B’ (by Congress and Sena-UBT to together contest polls) is wrong.
No such plan is being made. There is a need for change in 2024 and therefore were are preparing for it, ” Sharad Pawar informed reporters in Aurangabad forward of his public rally in Maharashtra’s Beed district on Thursday.
Asked about his hush-hush meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who has aligned with the BJP, in Pune final week, the senior Pawar mentioned, “He is my family member. If any ceremony is planned in our family, naturally I will be consulted at that time.” Seeking to clear his stand on the much-talked-about meeting with his nephew, which has precipitated unease amongst his allies Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT), the NCP patriarch asserted, “I will not go with the BJP. To stop unrest among people, we need to bring a change in 2024. We will do every possible to bring this change.”
The Sharad Pawar-led faction of the NCP is a part of the nationwide opposition bloc INDIA, which has been fashioned to tackle the BJP within the subsequent normal elections. The meeting between the NCP founder and Ajit Pawar on August 12 at businessman Atul Chordiya’s residence in Pune had despatched political circles abuzz with hypothesis.
It additionally did not go down properly with the Congress and the Shiv Sena group led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray. Apparently referring to the break up within the NCP after Ajit Pawar and eight different get together MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-led authorities in early July, the previous Union minister mentioned, “Those who have left me (in the past) didn’t get election tickets again.”
Asked about the Ajit Pawar group nonetheless utilizing his images, the previous Union minister mentioned, “We are going to court over this issue.” Sharad Pawar indicated his faction is in peril of dropping the get together image and famous he has despatched his reply to the Election Commission over the problem. “I have replied to the notice sent by the Election Commission.
Looking at the decision that came up in regard to the Shiv Sena (whose poll symbol was given to a rebel faction led by Eknath Shinde), our party symbol (clock) seems to be in danger. But I don’t care for a symbol as I have contested elections on many symbols like bullock pair, cow and calf, and won,” he mentioned.
The insurgent NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar has approached the EC and sought allotment of the get together image clock. The NCP founder mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not suppose the state of affairs in Manipur was vital sufficient to go to the violence-hit state. “The Modi government has been a mute spectator to the goings on in the (Manipur) region.
The northeast region is important and sensitive. More attention needs to be paid to the areas bordering China,” the previous defence minister mentioned. The NCP chief claimed that “things happening and being orchestrated in the northeast are extremely dangerous for the country.” “Manipur is an example,” he added.
“PM Modi spoke outside Parliament and gave a three-minute video message on day one of the Monsoon session, and also briefly mentioned about Manipur in his lengthy reply to the debate on the no-confidence motion,” the NCP chief mentioned. “Modi should go to the northeast and give confidence to the people, but he did not think it important.
Instead, he preferred to address election meetings in Madhya Pradesh,” Sharad Pawar mentioned. Asked about Modi’s assertion throughout his Independence Day speech that he might be again on the Red Fort to deal with the nation on August 15 subsequent yr, the NCP founder quipped the PM might have taken inspiration from Deputy Chief Minister and BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis.
Ahead of the 2019 meeting polls, then-chief minister Fadnavis had famously declared that he would go again to the highest submit after the elections. However, post-polls, the BJP might not type a authorities because the Shiv Sena (undivided) walked out of the saffron alliance and joined arms with the Congress and the NCP to type the MVA dispensation.
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After the June 2022 insurrection within the Shiv Sena, Eknath Shinde took over as chief minister with Fadnavis as his deputy. “Prime Minister Modi may have taken an inspiration from Devendra Fadnavis. Fadnavis came back (to power) but had to remain satisfied with a secondary (Deputy CM) post,” mentioned Sharad Pawar. “I don’t know what will happen in the case of Narendra Modi,” mentioned the NCP chief.
Sharad Pawar mentioned injustice has been accomplished to his get together colleague and former minister Nawab Malik, who’s out on interim bail on medical grounds in a cash laundering case, during which he was arrested in February 2022. “I have spoken to him (Malik). Injustice has been done to him as he was kept in jail for a long time for no reason. Political issues will take their time. It’s time for him to be with family,” he mentioned.
