Sharad Pawar Downplays Closed-Door Assembly With Nephew Ajit, Says No Get together Points Mentioned – News18
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The previous Union agriculture minister insisted dialogue on the assembly solely centred round a sugar trade undertaking
NCP chief Sharad Pawar. (PTI file photograph)
Nationalist Congress Get together (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday sought to downplay his closed-door assembly with estranged nephew and Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar in Pune, and asserted no difficulty associated to their respective events was mentioned.
Talking to reporters in Kolhapur metropolis, the previous Union agriculture minister insisted dialogue on the assembly solely centred round a sugar trade undertaking.
Requested about the opportunity of rival NCP factions, headed by him and Ajit Pawar, coming collectively and if this difficulty was touched up within the assembly, the veteran politician asserted no party-related matter was mentioned.
“Within the assembly, Ajit Pawar, myself and other people related to the (sugar trade) undertaking had been current,” he mentioned.
The 2 politicians had been in Pune to attend the annual normal physique assembly of the Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI), which is headed by the senior Pawar.
Deputy CM Ajit Pawar is a member of the Pune-based VSI, a distinguished analysis institute of the sugar trade, and attended its annual normal physique assembly for the primary time for the reason that July 2023 cut up within the Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP).
Through the AGM, Ajit Pawar sat at an arm’s size from his uncle, who heads the opposition NCP (SP). Whereas the 2 had been supposed to sit down subsequent to one another as per the preliminary association, the deputy CM, who leads the ruling NCP, moved his nameplate one chair away, permitting Maharashtra Cooperation Minister Babasaheb Patil to sit down between them.
Requested in regards to the change within the seating association, Sharad Pawar clarified Babasaheb Patil wished to talk about sure issues throughout the occasion and that’s the reason he (state minister) sat subsequent to him (senior Pawar).
An identical clarification was given by the junior Pawar.
“Babasaheb wished to talk to Pawar saheb. I can converse to him (Sharad Pawar) anytime. Even when I sat one chair away, my voice is loud sufficient for somebody additional away to listen to,” the deputy CM defined on Thursday when requested in regards to the seat rearrangement.
On the VSI occasion, Ajit Pawar and NCP (SP) state unit president Jayant Patil, each political rivals, had been additionally seen discussing one thing.
The NCP suffered a cut up in July 2023 when Ajit Pawar broke away from his uncle and joined the Shiv Sena-BJP authorities headed by then-Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
