Ajit Pawar denies schisms within the MVA, says ruling government is deploying ‘diversionary tactics’
The Hindu
Refuting suggestions of any schisms within the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Maharashtra Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Ajit Pawar on April 23 said the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance was merely deploying “diversionary tactics” to draw attention away from pressing issues facing the State.
Refuting suggestions of any schisms within the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Maharashtra Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Ajit Pawar on April 23 said the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance was merely deploying “diversionary tactics” to draw attention away from pressing issues facing the State.
Speaking to reporters in the Pawar clan’s bastion of Baramati, Mr. Ajit Pawar, commenting on his recent eyebrow-raising statement of wishing to stake claim to the Chief Minister’s post, said that he was not obliged to keep providing reactions to what others thought or said about his remarks.
On April 21, during an interview organised by a prominent vernacular media group, Mr. Ajit Pawar, in response to a question, had drolly said: “Not just in 2024, I am ready to stake claim to the Chief Minister’s post even now.”
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When questioned today on the buzz that his statement had generated, he said: “In response to the interviewer’s question, I had merely said that why wait till 2024, if we [NCP] get the majority today, I would like to be CM even now. Now, after I have given my opinion, I am not obliged to give any reaction on what others keep saying.”
Mr. Ajit Pawar, who has been the focus of an intense political buzz, with rumours of his possibly joining the ruling Shinde-BJP dispensation, further chastised the media for asking “irrelevant questions” rather than focus on issues like the plight of farmers suffering from unseasonal rain and hailstorms, and rising unemployment.
He further alleged that the ruling Shinde-Fadnavis dispensation were keeping alive the buzz around him and the tripartite MVA (of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction, the NCP and the Congress) by perpetuating rumours of “poor co-ordination” between the three allies.
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