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Sharad Pawar our leader, BJP-NCP alliance will provide stable govt: Ajit Pawar
NCP leader Ajit Pawar in a series of tweets thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union home minister Amit Shah and other senior leaders of the BJP.
Ajit Pawar, who pulled a stunner on Saturday morning when he decided to support BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, again on Sunday set the political circles abuzz by saying that Nationalist Congress Party boss Sharad Pawar is his leader and that the “NCP- BJP alliance” will provide stable government in Maharashtra.
“I am in the NCP and shall always be in the NCP and PawarSpeaks Saheb is our leader. Our BJP-NCP alliance shall provide a stable Government in Maharashtra for the next five years which will work sincerely for the welfare of the State and its people,” tweeted Ajit Pawar.
In a follow-up tweet, he thanked the people for the support and assured everyone that “all is well” and urged for “patience”.
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Minutes earlier, Ajit Pawar had tweeted thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for congratulating him on becoming Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister.
“Thank you Hon. Prime Minister @narendramodi ji. We will ensure a stable Government that will work hard for the welfare of the people of Maharashtra,” tweeted the new deputy CM.
In a series of tweets, Pawar thanked a whole host of BJP leaders — Smriti Irani, JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman — who had congratulated him on becoming the deputy chief minister.
Earlier today, the Supreme Court ordered the Centre to produce by Monday morning Maharashtra governor’s letter to BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis to form a government in the state.
The court asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to produce letters of the governor on Monday 10.30 am. Mehta sought two days’ time, a request that was declined by the court.
On Saturday evening, the NCP removed Ajit Pawar as the party’s legislature unit head, saying his decision to support Fadnavis government was not in line with the party’s policies.
NCP boss Sharad Pawar on termed his nephew Ajit Pawar’s decision to ally with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) an act of indiscipline, and said Ajit and other legislators of the party who switched sides will attract provisions of the anti-defection law.
Stressing that the BJP-led dispensation would not pass a floor test, he asserted that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine has the numbers and will form the government in Maharashtra.
He said he was not aware if his nephew decided to support the BJP out of the fear of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Ajit Pawar is among those named in the multi-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam case.
