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NCP chief Sharad Pawar has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not think the situation in Manipur important enough to visit the state. Modi government has been a mute spectator to the goings on in the (Manipur) region, Pawar told reporters ahead of his public rally in Maharashtra’s Beed district .
Pawar slammed the BJP saying, he power of the country is in the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies. Their role is to maintain unity in the society, but they are dividing people.
“The northeast region is important and sensitive. More attention needs to be paid to the areas bordering China,” the former defence minister said.
The NCP chief claimed that things happening and being orchestrated in northeast are extremely dangerous for the country. Manipur is an example, he added. PM Modi spoke outside Parliament and gave a three minute video message on day one of the Monsoon session, and also briefly mentioned about Manipur in his lengthy reply to the debate on the no-confidence motion, he said.
“Modi should go to the northeast and give confidence to the people, but he did not think it important. Instead, he preferred to address election meetings in Madhya Pradesh,” Pawar said.
On meeting Ajit Pawar, Sharad Pawar quoted by ANI said, It was a family meeting with Ajit Pawar. I did not go to the media talking about the meeting.
On The EC notice , Pawar stated, Election Commission gave me a notice over election symbol of my party. I am not worried because of ECI, but it is clear that some powerful people from Central government interfered in ECI’s decision on Uddhav Thackeray’s party. We are seeing the result of that decision by ECI today. I suspect a similar thing might be done with us.
Earlier, Amid media reports of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar offered Sharad Pawar a berth in Union Cabinet, Congress state unit chief Nana Patole on Wednesday said that the NCP supremo has already clarified that he will remain with the INDIA alliance.
Earlier media reports had quoted Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister, Prithviraj Chavan, claiming that a central cabinet berth had been offered to NCP stalwart Sharad Pawar or his daughter Supriya Sule.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole said, “Sharad Pawar has said that he will remain with the INDIA alliance. I trust that he will go with the INDIA alliance…”
