‘I only pay attention to what Mahayuti leaders say’: Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar
Mumbai, August 19
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday said he was not bothered by criticism by others and was only concerned about what the leaders of the ruling Mahayuti alliance said.
Pawar's remarks came a day after a group of BJP workers led by the party's Junnar chief, Asha Buchake, waved black flags at his convoy.
“I have nothing to do with what other people say. I pay attention to the key people — CM Eknath Shinde of Shiv Sena; Chandrashekhar Bawankule; and Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP,” Pawar told reporters during his Jan Sanman Yatra in Mumbai.
The Nationalist Congress Party, led by Pawar, had demanded that Fadnavis, who also hold the Home portfolio, clarify whether he approved of the behaviour of his BJP workers.
Asha Buchake had claimed that the NCP was trying to promote its candidate for the Junnar seat for the forthcoming assembly polls.
“They are trying to strangle us. Therefore, we have adopted an aggressive stand,” she told reporters after the protesters raised slogans against Pawar.
An official meeting was organised on tourism development in Junnar on Sunday; however, the BJP was not invited for it, she said.
“If we are part of Mahayuti, why were the pictures of CM Shinde and Deputy CM Fadnavis not put up in the meeting hall?” she added.
Asked if he will get a ‘Rakhi' tied on his wrist from estranged cousin Supriya Sule on Raksha Bandhan, Ajit Pawar said, “I will do it if she is in Mumbai today.”
Pawar last week expressed his regret for making his wife Sunetra Pawar contest against his cousin Supriya Sule in the 2024 General Election. Sule won the election.
Pawar had accepted that he made a mistake and said, “I love all my sisters. No one should allow politics to enter homes. I made a mistake in fielding Sunetra against my sister. This should not have happened. However, the Parliamentary board of the NCP took the decision, and I followed it. Although now I feel it was wrong.”
