Last Update: May 02, 2023, 23:10 IST
File photo of Sharad Pawar (R) and Ajit Pawar. (News18/File photo)
If all the party workers go back, then only I will consider my decision. Ajit quoted Sharad Pawar as saying that those who have resigned from their posts should take back their decisions.
Hours after Sharad Pawar announced that he would quit as NCP president, nephew and party leader Ajit Pawar said the veteran politician has agreed to reconsider his decision.
“…we told him (Sharad Pawar) that the workers are very upset. We also told him that the party workers wanted him to continue as the party president along with being the working president. He said he will reconsider his decision and it will take 2-3 days time…” Ajit Pawar told reporters.
#Watch , “…we told him (Sharad Pawar) that the workers are very upset. We also told him that the party workers wanted him to continue as the party president along with being the working president. He said he will reconsider his decision and it will require 2-3 days…”: NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Sharad… pic.twitter.com/8Fjb41QdDD– ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2023
Ajit Pawar said everyone was surprised at the book launch of the veteran NCP leader announced his decision to step down as party chief – a position he held for 24 years.
“We all gathered for the book launch of Sibra (Pawar). No one thought that he would take such a decision. It was a shock to everyone,” he told reporters at the YB Chavan Center in Mumbai.
Earlier in the day, Pawar surprised by saying he was stepping down as chief of the Nationalist Congress Party, the organization he founded in 1999 after breaking away from the Congress. He announced his retirement during the release of his autobiography. , “Lok Majhe Sangai – Political Autobiography”.
Quoting his uncle, Ajit Pawar told reporters that the NCP supremo said he would need 2-3 days to think about his decision to resign. He said, ‘If all the party workers go back, then only I will consider my decision. Ajit quoted Sharad Pawar as saying that those who have resigned from their posts should take back their decisions.
Sharad Pawar’s announcement was met with protest by party workers and leaders, who asked the eighty-year-old leader to rescind the decision. The decision also created a stir in political circles as it came a year before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Earlier talking to the media, Ajit Pawar had said that Pawar’s resignation does not mean that he is leaving politics. He said Pawar wanted to announce the decision on May 1 but could not do so because of the MVA rally. “We hoped that this day would come someday,” said Ajit. “In the Congress party, Soniaji is still the leader, but she is not in office. We have to consider his age. All work will be done under his leadership.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis dismissed Pawar’s decision to leave it to “internal matters” of the NCP, adding that the BJP is monitoring the situation. “Pawar Sahab’s decision is NCP’s internal matter. It is his personal decision. He is a senior leader and he has decided something. There is a lot of churning going on within his party. So, for us to react on it Will not be right. We will monitor the situation and react after a day or two.” Said.
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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut called Pawar the “soul of Maharashtra politics” and compared his decision to the “resignation” of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Raut said on Twitter, ‘I am fed up with dirty Politics And allegations, Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray had also resigned from the post of Shiv Sena chief. History seems to have repeated itself… But due to the love of Shiv Sainiks, he had to take back his decision… Like Balasaheb, Pawar Saheb is also the soul of state politics.”
A four-time Chief Minister of Maharashtra, who also served as the Union Minister of Defense and Agriculture, Pawar sought to stitch together an ideologically opposite coalition of the NCP, the Congress and then the Shiv Sena to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government after 2019. had played an important role. maharashtra assembly election
From student politics to becoming chief minister of Maharashtra four times and a decade-long stint as a Union minister, Pawar has been a master of political maneuvering.
One of his most notable moves was during the campaign for the 2019 Maharashtra by-elections when Pawar made a historic speech in Satara amid heavy rains. The NCP chief, who was completely drenched in rain, refused to take an umbrella while continuing his speech from the dais, saying a leader should not cover himself when his party workers are braving the rain. The speech proved to be a game changer in the bypolls as Pawar significantly ate into the vote share of the BJP and the Congress.
(With PTI inputs)
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