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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has disapproved of his cabinet colleague Chandrakant Patil’s remarks that he and workers of his party BJP wanted to defeat NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar in Baramati, saying he should not have spoken those words.
Ajit Pawar criticised Patil, a senior BJP leader, for his remarks two days after polling in the Baramati Lok Sabha seat in Pune district concluded.
Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra contested from Baramati against sitting MP Supriya Sule, the daughter of Sharad Pawar.
In March, Patil had said that he and his party workers wanted to defeat Sharad Pawar in Baramati, the home turf of the Pawar family.
Patil, while speaking to reporters in Baramati, had accused the senior Pawar of “taking away” the Shiv Sena despite the people of the state giving a clear mandate in favour of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance by electing 161 MLAs in the 2019 polls.
“I and my party workers want defeat of Sharad Pawar (in Baramati) and that is enough (for us),” the senior BJP leader had said.
Ajit Pawar, while expressing his displeasure over the BJP leader’s comments made in March, said on Thursday, “He (Patil) should not have made those remarks.”
“(After that statement), I told Chandrakant dada to look into the BJP’s work in Pune city and me (Ajit Pawar) and my party workers will look after the Baramati Lok Sabha seat. He should not have made those comments.
But later, he never spoke a word,” said the Deputy Chief Minister.
