Mumbai: Former Union minister and Shiv Sena leader Anant Geete has said that NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who stabbed the Congress in the back to form his party, cannot be a ‘guru’ for Shiv Sainiks. He also said that the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress is just an “adjustment”.
Pawar is considered the architect and anchor of the MVA government, which came to power after the 2019 assembly elections, following a fallout between the Shiv Sena and the BJP, who shared power from 2014 to 2019.
Addressing a public meeting in his home constituency Raigad on Monday, Geete said, “Sharad Pawar can never be our leader as this government (MVA) is only an adjustment. Let people praise many for Pawar, but ours’. Guru’ is (late) Balasaheb Thackeray.”
Geete said, “As long as this government is working, it will continue… If we part ways, our home is Shiv Sena and we will always be with our party.”
Geete, a former MP from Raigad, also said that he has no “mis-intention” towards the Shiv Sena-led government and wants it to be successful. “Pawar had formed his party by stabbing the Congress in the back. If Congress and NCP cannot be united, then Shiv Sena also cannot follow the policy of Congress completely.
The Shiv Sena leader said the Congress and the NCP were not always cordial. The NCP was formed on May 25, 1999 by Sharad Pawar, PA Sangma and Tariq Anwar, after he was expelled from the Indian National Congress (INC) for disputing the right of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi to lead the party. was given.
The NCP later became part of the Congress-led UPA governments at the Center in which Pawar served as Agriculture Minister. In Maharashtra too, the Congress and the NCP shared power till 2014, when the Aghadi government was defeated by the BJP.
Geete had served as the Union Minister of Heavy Industries after the 2014 elections when the Shiv Sena was part of the National Democratic Alliance.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he lost to his NCP rival Sunil Tatkare by a narrow margin. Tatkare’s daughter Aditi is currently a minister of state in the MVA government.
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