I am Being Watched By Shiv Sena, NCP: Maha Congress Chief Patole

Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole has said that he was ‘being watched’ by leaders of Shiv Sena and NCP.

Patole said Shiv Sena Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and NCP Home Minister Ajit Pawar get an intelligence report every morning and are shaken by the Congress’s move to revive itself. Later, he said that his comments were misinterpreted and that he would clarify the matter soon

Addressing party workers at a meeting in Lonavala, he said, “Every morning at 9, an intelligence report on what is happening in the state is submitted to the Chief Minister and the Home Minister. The Congress is resurrecting itself and the report is making the ground beneath their feet slip away. I am here in Lonavala and this report will go to them,” Patole was quoted as saying by PTI.

He further said that the Congress is re-establishing itself in Maharashtra and it is creating a “disturbance” among other allies of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.

Hours later, he said he did not mean that the state government was keeping an eye on him. “My wish was against the Centre. I will issue a clarification when I return to Mumbai,” he said.

Patole, who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket before joining the Congress in 2018, has been in the news for his comments on the coalition government for some time now.

Last month, he told reporters that “the MVA was formed for five years in 2019 to stop the BJP. It is not a permanent place. Every party has the right to strengthen its organisation and the Congress has always given priority to providing relief to COVID-19 affected people by making available blood, oxygen and plasma at various places”.

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