Jalgaon: Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday mentioned Nationalist Congress Party chief Ajit Pawar was able to changing into Maharashtra chief minister since he has huge administrative expertise, the previous’s assertion coming days after the 2 engaged in a verbal tussle.
Raut, a key aide of Uddhav Thackeray, additionally mentioned some undeserving folks had gone on to change into CM of the state by engineering splits, an obvious reference to Eknath Shinde whose rebel together with 40 MLAs in June final yr introduced down the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities.
“Who would not like to be chief minister? And Ajit Pawar is capable of becoming chief minister. He has been in politics for so many years now and has been minister several times. He holds a record for having served as deputy CM for the most number of times. Everyone thinks one should become CM,” Raut advised reporters.
On November 23, 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party chief Devendra Fadnavis and Pawar had been sworn in as chief minister and deputy CM, respectively, however the authorities fell with out proving its majority on November 28.
Pawar went again to the NCP and was made deputy CM within the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities led by Uddhav Thackeray.
Raut’s assertion comes a day after Pawar, throughout an interview with a media home in Pune, responded to a question on his chief ministerial ambitions by saying “yes, I would 100 per cent like to be (CM)”.
Queried on this, Raut mentioned, “He (Pawar) has not expressed this desire for the first time. So my best wishes to him.”
These statements come amid intense hypothesis about Pawar’s subsequent political transfer, because the mercurial NCP chief cancelled a few of his programmes not too long ago, went incommunicado briefly and skipped the get together’s one-day conference in Mumbai on Friday.
While there’s hypothesis about his transfer to the BJP, Pawar has mentioned he will likely be with the NCP until he’s alive, and Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule additionally not too long ago acknowledged the previous was not in contact with the saffron get together.
Pawar and Raut had a verbal tussle not too long ago after the latter’s weekly column in Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ dealt on a gathering between NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray.
Raut, in his column, claimed Sharad Pawar had advised Thackeray the NCP would by no means align with the BJP, although “if anyone takes a personal decision to leave, it is their individual issue”.
Hitting again, Ajit Pawar, on Tuesday, educated his weapons on Raut and mentioned some spokespersons of different events had been behaving like spokespersons of the NCP.
The former deputy CM additionally mentioned he would increase this subject every time there’s a assembly of the NCP.
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