MUMBAI: Taking aim at the BJP, NCP president Sharad Pawar has said that politicians shouldn't take voters without any consideration as even powerful leaders like Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee had been defeated in elections.
Criticising former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over his ‘Mi punha yein’ (I will come back) refrain during the last year’s assembly polls, Pawar said that voters thought that this stance smacked of arrogance and felt that they ought to be taught a lesson.
Pawar also said that that there wasn't an “iota of truth” in reports about differences within the three ruling allies- Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress- that are a part of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
The former Union minister said this in an interview by Shiv Sena leader and Executive Editor of party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’. the primary of the three-part interview series was published within the Marathi daily on Saturday.
This is for the primary time that a non-Shiv Sena leader has featured during a marathon interview series within the party mouthpiece. it's thus far published marathon interviews lately Bal Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray.
Replying to a question over BJP’s defeat within the last assembly polls within the state, Pawar said, “In a democracy, you can't think that you simply will remain in power eternally. Voters won't tolerate if they're taken without any consideration . Powerful leaders mass base with like Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee had been defeated.
“It means in terms of the democratic rights, the commoner is wiser than the politicians. If we politicians cross the road , he teaches us a lesson. Therefore, people don't just like the stand that ‘we will come to power’,” he said.
“No politician should take people without any consideration . Nobody should take a stand that he would return to power. People thought that this stand smacks of arrogance and hence feeling grew among them that they ought to be taught a lesson,” Pawar said.
He said the change of state in Maharashtra wasn't an accident.
“People of Maharashtra voted in line of the sentiment prevailing within the country during the national elections. But the mood changed during the assembly polls. albeit BJP did well within the Lok Sabha polls, it fared poorly in assembly elections in several states. Even people of Maharashtra voted for a change,” he said.
Replying to a question over his reported differences with CM Thackeray on the lockdown within the state, Pawar said, “Absolutely not. What differences? For what? During the whole period of lockdown, I even have had excellent communication with the chief minister and still do so.”
Pawar, who played a key role in bringing together the Sena, Congress and NCP for formation of state within the state in November last year, blamed the media and said sarcastically that the news gathering activity had been hit by the coronavirus-induced lockdown and that they had the responsibility to fill the pages of newspapers.
“I are reading reports of growing differences among the three allies, but there's not an iota of truth therein ,” he said.
Speaking about the design of functioning of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray, Pawar said, “Although Balasaheb was never within the seat of power, he was the drive behind the facility . He got power in Maharashtra thanks to his ideology.
“Today, the govt isn't due to the ideology. But the responsibility of implementing that power now lies with Uddhav Thackeray,” he said.
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