PM Modi Wanted BJP-NCP Allaince For Maha Govt, I Rejected Offer: Sharad Pawar

TPI Staff December 30, 2021

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Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar reiterated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was keen on an NCP-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government in Maharashtra after October 2019 Assembly elections saw a fractured mandate.

Pawar refers to his meeting with the PM on the release of “Ashtavadhani”, a coffee table book launched by ‘Loksatta’ Marathi daily of The Indian Express Group on November 20, 2019, and released by Baba Kalyani, MD, Bharat Force it was done.

At that time, Pawar had confirmed how Modi wanted NCP-BJP to “work together” and even offered a central Cabinet berth to his daughter and Baramati MP Supriya Sule.

“There was a discussion about an alliance… I had told the PM right in his office that it was not possible… I would not like to keep them in the dark,” Pawar recalled the incident.

Pawar felt the BJP’s offer might come as there were differences between the Congress-NCP at that time, but Shiv Sena came forward for a three-party alliance, which was eventually sworn in as the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by the chief. Was. Minister Uddhav Thackeray on 28 November 2019.

Asked whether the NCP chief – three days after meeting the PM – sent his nephew Ajit Pawar to form an 80-hour-long, two-legged government sworn-in early morning with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis as the CM, Pawar quipped: “If that was so, then I would not have left the job incomplete!”

The BJP faced one of its biggest political setbacks in November 2019, when it failed to take Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray along on the issue of power-sharing and virtually publicly called him a ‘liar’.

Simultaneously, there were attempts to woo Thackeray through the back door, even though intermittent calls between central BJP leaders, attempts to woo Shiv Sena-NCP MLAs, etc.

Pawar recalled that Thackeray changed his position because “the BJP did not respect the consensus among them”, and the NCP finally decided to support the Shiv Sena chief as CM.

Giving full marks to Modi for working hard to accomplish any task, paying attention to administration, implementing policies firmly in his own style, Pawar said, Pawar said: “if the problems of the masses are not solved, there will be no impact, which is where he lags”.