‘Undivided NCP wished to hitch Mahayuti authorities in 2022’: Ajit Pawar

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday claimed that the undivided Sharad Pawar-led NCP wished to hitch the Mahayuti authorities when Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde joined fingers with BJP in 2022.
Whereas addressing a public gathering in Maharashtra’s Dindori, Ajit claimed that each one NCP MLAs had been prepared and had even signed a letter agreeing to the get together’s resolution to hitch the coalition.
“All MLAs of NCP had been then prepared to hitch the Mahayuti authorities. All of them signed a letter, agreeing to the get together’s resolution to hitch the coalition within the curiosity of the state and its growth,” Ajit mentioned.
“Jayant Patil and Rajesh Tope, who’re nonetheless there (with NCP-SCP), had additionally signed the letter,” he added.
This comes a day after Ajit, in an interview, claimed that industrialist Gautam Adani was a part of political talks between BJP and the undivided Sharad Pawar-led NCP 5 years in the past.
He was referring to discussions that occurred simply earlier than he joined fingers with BJP and shaped a short-lived authorities with Devendra Fadnavis as CM and himself as deputy CM in 2019.
“Amit Shah, Gautam Adani, Praful Patel, Fadnavis & Pawar Saheb… All had been there…,” Ajit Pawar mentioned in an interview to Newslaundry.
Ajit, nonetheless, backtracked on his assertion about industrialist Gautam Adani being a part of political talks between BJP and undivided NCP 5 years in the past. “My assertion was misconstrued,” he mentioned.