Mumbai: The Shiv Sena (UBT) has alleged that “some individuals” from the Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) have been prepared to affix the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), and final week’s occasions — occasion chief Sharad Pawar’s resignation and subsequent turnabout on account of the NCP cadre’s overwhelming present of assist — quelled the potential rise up.
“Some individuals (from NCP) have been prepared to depart the occasion and lodging-boarding preparations have been stored prepared by BJP,” learn the editorial revealed Monday in Shiv Sena (UBT)’s mouthpiece Saamana.
The editorial additionally criticised Sharad Pawar for failing to put down a transparent succession plan — a reference to the 82-year-old NCP founder’s failure to call a political inheritor.
Denying the claims, NCP spokesperson Mahesh Tapase mentioned Monday, “We don’t agree with what’s written within the editorial. All of us consider within the ideology of Pawar saheb, so it’s not true that he hasn’t groomed a successor.”
The editorial in Saamana went additional to counsel that the BJP needed to engineer a cut up within the NCP ‘because it did within the case of the Shiv Sena’, which led to the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities final June.
“One group throughout the NCP was of the opinion that (Sharad) Pawar ought to be part of palms with the BJP and, in flip, save colleagues from the ED (Enforcement Directorate), CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), IT (Revenue Tax) raids however Pawar refused,” it learn, including that Pawar foiled BJP’s alleged plan to separate the NCP.
Referring to the 18-member committee of senior NCP leaders tasked with deciding on Pawar’s resignation, the editorial added that the panel “had members who have been prepared to enter the BJP fold however due to strain from employees and robust feelings that have been seen, the committee needed to refuse Pawar’s resignation and settle for him as their all the things”.
This was not the primary time such claims have been made in an editorial revealed in Saamana.
On Thursday, one other editorial in it hinted that some NCP leaders have been believed to be in contact with the BJP. The NCP, an ally of the Shiv Sena (UBT), denied the cost with its spokesperson Tapase saying, “All of NCP is united and can put up candidates in opposition to BJP to make sure the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) wins most seats within the (2024) meeting polls.”
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Ajit Pawar & Supriya Sule
Final week, Sharad Pawar took many — together with some in his personal occasion — unexpectedly, when he introduced his resignation as NCP chief from the dais through the launch of his up to date biography.
Whereas employees and occasion leaders opposed his choice, nephew and chief of Opposition within the Maharashtra Meeting Ajit Pawar was the one NCP chief supporting Sharad Pawar’s transfer.
Though Sharad Pawar mentioned at a press convention Friday that Ajit Pawar had an inkling of his choice, which is why he got here out in assist.
Talking to the media in Baramati, Ajit Pawar mentioned Sunday, “Was everybody from the NCP current at that (Friday’s) press convention? Because it was a media interplay, solely 4 to 5 leaders have been current, together with state NCP chief Jayant Patil, Praful Patel, and a few leaders from Kerala and North India.”
“Pawar saheb requested us to not come. Because it was his choice, others didn’t come for the presser,” he defined, referring to the press convention during which Sharad Pawar mentioned he had determined to withdraw his resignation.
Towards this backdrop, one other assertion by Sharad Pawar about his daughter and Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule assumes significance.
Amid hypothesis about Sule being the possible candidate to guide the NCP after Pawar’s exit, Sharad Pawar mentioned that she had made it clear that she was not excited about heading the occasion and would fairly deal with the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “Supriya mentioned that she just isn’t able to take up any new accountability,” Pawar mentioned Sunday, on the sidelines of his first public engagement since his 2 Might announcement that despatched shock waves.
Though, having mentioned that, Pawar additionally hinted that Sule might not be averse to heading the occasion someday sooner or later.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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