Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday described his teaming up with NCP chief Ajit Pawar to kind a short-lived 80-hour authorities within the state in 2019 as a mistake, including he doesn’t remorse it. “I don’t regret it but we should not have formed such a government. This was a mistake,” the BJP chief mentioned throughout a web based interplay with editors of Marathi each day Loksatta.
On November 23, 2019, amid hectic parleys between the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress to kind a non-BJP authorities within the state after the polls threw up a hung Assembly, Fadnavis and Pawar have been sworn in at daybreak in a ceremony at Raj Bhavan. “Even if this (forming the government with Ajit Pawar) was a mistake, when you are stabbed in the back, you have to stay alive in politics,” Fadnavis mentioned, referring to Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray ‘reneging’ on the pre-poll alliance with the BJP.
“To stay alive in politics you have to do whatever is needed to be done. So when you have been stabbed in the back, you have to give a befitting response,” he mentioned. The choice to kind the federal government with Pawar was a results of “mixed feelings” which included anger, he mentioned.
“So when an opportunity arose, we seized it. Now I can say that what we did was not at all liked by our supporters and the BJP supporters,” mentioned Fadnavis, who’s now the Leader of Opposition within the Assembly. “I also agree that my image among our supporters got substantially dented. It would have been better had we not attempted what we did (forming the government with Ajit Pawar) but at that time I thought that was the right decision,” Fadnavis mentioned.
In November 2019, Fadnavis resigned because the Maharashtra chief minister three days after he took oath alongside with Ajit Pawar, who was sworn in because the deputy chief minister. Fadnavis had then mentioned he resigned as chief minister after Ajit Pawar knowledgeable him he was quitting as a consequence of private causes. The NCP chief was again because the deputy chief minister quickly after the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities of the Shiv Sena- NCP-Congress alliance got here to energy. PTI VT VT 06042027 NNNN.
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