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PuneNationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said one of the advantages of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempt to form government with his nephew and NCP leader Ajit Pawar was that it ended President’s Rule in Maharashtra in 2019.
Addressing a press conference in Pimpri Chinchwad, Pawar said that if this exercise (of government formation with Ajit) had not happened, President’s rule would have continued in the state. He was replying to a question about Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s claim that NCP chief Sharad Pawar was also supported to form the government along with Ajit Pawar.
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The NCP chief said, “An attempt was made to form the government. One advantage of that exercise was that it helped in the removal of President’s Rule in Maharashtra and what happened after that, everyone has seen. Asked whether he was aware of such government formation and why Ajit Pawar was keeping mum on the issue, the NCP chief wondered if there was a need to speak about it.
He said, “I just said that if such an exercise had not taken place, would the President’s rule have been revoked? Would Uddhav Thackeray have taken oath as the chief minister if President’s rule had not been revoked?
Significantly, in a surprising political development in Maharashtra, the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari had sworn in Fadnavis as Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister in a ceremony on November 23, 2019, but the government lasted only three days, after which Uddhav Thackeray took oath as Chief Minister with the support of NCP and Congress. (agency)
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