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Nationalist Congress Party leader and Baramati MP Supriya Sule has said it was the Narendra Modi government that had given Sharad Pawar the Padma Vibhushan, the country’s second highest civilian award, for his work in the agriculture sector, the statement coming a day after the prime minister questioned the NCP founder’s contribution to farmers.
As reported by PTI, During his address in Shirdi in Ahmednagar district on Thursday, Modi, without naming Pawar, had said, “Some people in Maharashtra only did politics in the name of farmers. A senior leader of Maharashtra served as the country’s agriculture minister. I personally respect him, but what has he done for farmers?” Pawar served as the agriculture minister when the Congress-led UPA government was in office at the Centre (2004-14). Modi had also said when Pawar was the Union agriculture minister, farmers were at the mercy of middlemen.
Talking to reporters in Sindhdurg district, Sule said whenever the prime minister came to Maharashtra, he dubbed the NCP as “Naturally Corrupt Party”. On Thursday, Modi didn’t link NCP to corruption like he used to before.
