There Is ‘No Alternative’ To Modi: Ajit Pawar Praises PM Days After Joining Shinde Govt

New Delhi: Maharashtra’s new deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and stated that there’s ‘no different chief’ like him. After inaugurating his Nationalist Congress Party faction’s new workplace in Mumbai, he stated that the nation is ‘marching forward’ below Modi’s management.

“There is no leader like Modi. There is no alternative to him,” Ajit Pawar, the nephew of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, stated. 

“We have joined the (Eknath Shinde) government to support him,” he added.

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“We all have decided to work together. There is no question of disgruntlement,” he stated when requested if some members of the Shinde group are sad over his inclusion within the ministry.

Earlier on Sunday, Ajit Pawar and eight different MLAs of the Nationalist Congress Party joined the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena authorities in Maharashtra. Subsequently, Sharad Pawar on Monday sacked the social gathering’s working president Praful Patel and common secretary and treasurer Sunil Tatkare — who’ve sided with Ajit Pawar in his revolt — for participating in ‘anti-party’ actions.

Later, the NCP supremo additionally issued notices to Patel and Tatkare, who can also be a Lok Sabha MP, and accused them of facilitating and spearheading defections of 9 MLAs with out his information and consent.

In his letter, the senior Pawar wrote, “Your action of supporting Shri Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs who have sworn oath as ministers in violation of the party’s direction and mandate amount to anti-party activities”.

“I remove your names from the membership register of the party in view of your actions,” he stated.

The social gathering is initiating applicable motion for formal disqualification of Patel and Tatkare as MPs below the tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the previous union minister added.

The letter additionally said that the ‘misrepresentation of affiliation with NCP henceforth shall be unlawful and illegal’ on the a part of Patel and Tatkare.

The Ajit Pawar camp, nonetheless, rapidly hit again and eliminated Maharashtra NCP president Jayant Patil and made Tatkare the brand new state social gathering chief. It additionally requested the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker to disqualify Jayant Patil and Jitendra Awhad from membership of the House.