Union minister Athawale invites Sharad Pawar to join NDA


Team Udayavani, Jul 13, 2020, 5:02 PM IST

Mumbai: Union minister and RPI(A) chief Ramdas Athawale on Monday invited NCP president Sharad Pawar to join the BJP-led NDA, saying the country and Maharashtra will benefit from the veteran politician’s vast experience.

Pawar should support the BJP instead of the Shiv Sena, Athawale, whose party is a constituent of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), said in a statement here.

“The BJP, NCP and RPI(A) should form a grand alliance in Maharashtra,” he said, adding that Pawar should work with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The country and Maharashtra will benefit out of Pawars vast experience and hence, it is extremely necessary for Pawar to consider joining the NDA. I invite him to join the NDA,” the Union social justice minister said.

The “grand alliance of the BJP, NCP and RPI(A) would be a formidable one, Athawale claimed.

Pawar played a key role in stitching the alliance of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress to form government in Maharashtra last year after the Uddhav Thackeray-led party fell out with the BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post.

In an interview published in Shiv Sena mouthpiece ”Saamana” on Monday, Pawar said his offer of outside support to the BJP in 2014 to form government in Maharashtra was a “political ploy” aimed to keep the Shiv Sena away from its then ally.

The Maratha strongman admitted he took steps to “widen the distance between the BJP and Shiv Sena”.

He also said after the last year’s Assembly polls, BJP leaders approached him to support the Devendra Fadnavis government in the state, but he told Prime Minister Modi that the NCP will not go with the BJP and if possible, it will form a government with the Shiv Sena or sit in the opposition.

“The BJP doesn’t believe that non-BJP parties have the right to function in a democratic setup,” Pawar said.

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