Maharashtra | Sharad Pawar | PM Modi: Parliamentary Lok Sabha elections are going on in full swing across the country. Voting for this election, which is going on in 7 phases, will be held from April 19 to June 1. The votes will be counted on June 4 and the results will be declared on the same day.
While 3 phases of Lok Sabha elections have been completed so far, the 4th phase of elections is going to be held on 13th. In this case, the Prime Minister on behalf of the ruling BJP Narendra Modi He is contesting again as a candidate from Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Polling for this constituency is scheduled to take place during the 7th phase of elections. After this, Modi is collecting votes in favor of BJP.
Modi speech
In this context, Nationalist Congress (Sharath Pawar Team) NCP (SP) President Sarath Pawar has mentioned in his recent statement that smaller state parties may move closer to or merge with the Congress in the coming years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has scoffed at this, calling Sarath Pawar’s party a fake NCP, without mentioning him by name, and saying it would be better to “respectfully” join the BJP-led coalition than join the Congress.
Addressing a rally in Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district, Modi said, “A senior leader from Maharashtra has been in politics for 40-50 years. These days he is making stupid statements. After the Baramati elections, he is frustrated and disappointed. After discussing with many people, he issued a statement. Small state parties should survive in politics. If necessary, he has said that he should join hands with the Congress.
This means that fake NCP and fake Shiv Sena have decided to merge with Congress. Instead of dying after four days with Congress, proudly join hands with Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde and all your dreams will come true,” PM Modi said.
Sarath Pawar’s NCP and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena are both part of the opposition India Alliance. Sarath Pawar’s Nationalist Congress cousin Ajit Pawar joined the BJP alliance, breaking the party with 15 MLAs. Similarly, Eknath Shinde, who joined the BJP alliance, became the Chief Minister of Maharashtra state, taking 9 of the 22 MLAs from Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena.
Pawar retorts
In this situation, Sharad Pawar, who has responded to the mockery of the Prime Minister, has said that he will not join hands with those who take an anti-Muslim stance and leave the Nehru-Gandhi ideology. In an interview to The Indian Express on May 4, he said, “In the next two years, many state parties will be very closely associated with the Congress. Or if they feel that it is in the best interest of their party to join the Congress, they may look at the possibility of joining that party,” he said.
Asked if this applies to his own party, the NCP (Sharath Pawar’s team), he said, “I don’t see any difference between the Congress and us. Ideologically, we are Gandhian and Nehruian.
We admire Nehru-Gandhi ideology. We will not go anywhere from that ideology. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made some comments about the Muslim community in his speeches. I have heard them. If we are to move this country forward and be united we must bring all communities together. A community can’t be thought of as progress.
PM Modi has repeatedly taken a stand against a particular community. He is distraught because public opinion is forming against him and he is making these comments. Modi may have sensed our need, but we will not join hands with them, abandoning our espoused ideology.
Today our parliament and democratic system is in danger. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soran have been arrested and jailed. These arrests would not have happened without the role of the central government and the central leadership. The Prime Minister has no faith in our democratic system. We cannot join hands with any person, party or ideology that does not believe in our parliamentary democracy,” said Sharad Pawar.
