PM Modi wanted BJP, NCP to come together in Maharashtra to form govt in 2019: Sharad Pawar

Sharad Pawar has claimed that PM Modi wanted the BJP and the NCP to come together in Maharashtra to form government in 2019.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted the BJP and the NCP to come together in Maharashtra to form government in 2019, but he told the PM that "it was not possible".

Reacting to Pawar's comments, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, whose party shares power with the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra, on Thursday claimed that after the 2019 Assembly polls, the BJP was desperate for power and ready to hold anyone's hand for it.