Sharad Pawar’s party to join NDA but tussle continues for Maha Finance Ministry
The Sharad Pawar-led NCP is all set to join the BJP-led Maharashtra cabinet and the NDA Union cabinet in a few days, sources said here on Friday.
The Sharad Pawar-led NCP is all set to join the BJP-led Maharashtra cabinet and the NDA Union cabinet in a few days, sources said here on Friday.
Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale said that Sharad Pawar and his NCP would be welcome in the NDA, if he joins the BJP-led ruling alliance.
The NCP-SP leader dismissed reports regarding her party's stance on the delimitation bill as "incorrect and based solely on speculation."
The NCP (SP) and the Congress are part of the Opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra as well as the INDIA bloc at the national level.
A meeting inside the Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan has sparked fresh tensions within the opposition alliance. Sanjay Raut has openly questioned Sharad Pawar's political decision.
Former Maharashtra Home Minister and Sharad Pawar-led NCP leader Anil Deshmukh stated at a press conference on Wednesday that he plans to produce a Regional Forensic Science Laboratory report shortly and use it to challenge the closure of a police case that investigated an attack against him in 2024, just before the Maharashtra state assembly elections, which were held last year.
Responding to a question on Rahul Gandhi's criticism of the Election Commission of India over alleged "vote chori", Pawar said Gandhi and other Opposition leaders have raised key issues about the ECI's functioning.
NCP founder Sharad Pawar told media persons here on Friday that he turned down a request by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, seeking NCP's support for NDA's Vice President candidate CP Radhakrishnan.
Pawar said that he even introduced them to Rahul Gandhi but the latter and he himself decided to go to the people in a usual way.
. Though Rahul Gandhi spoke about electronic voting machines (EVMs) for many years, Sharad Pawar never talked about them.
