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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said there was a need to fight forces creating communal divide in Maharashtra and the country.
Addressing NCP workers and supporters in Karad , Sharad Pawar also said “some of our people fell prey to BJP’s tactics to break other parties.” “Attempts are being made to create communal divide in Maharashtra and the country. We need to fight forces that create fear among peace-loving citizens,” he said.
“We need to protect democracy in the country,” he added. Sharad Pawar visited the memorial of his mentor and Maharashtra’s first chief minister Yashwantrao Chavan in Karad and paid floral tributes to him.
#WATCH | NCP President Sharad Pawar addresses party workers in Satara after Ajit Pawar joins BJP-Shinde Shiv Sena govt in Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/O3LDambrIS
— ANI (@ANI) July 3, 2023
The 82-year-old leader’s visit to late Chavan’s memorial ‘Pritisangam’ on the occasion of Guru Purnima is being seen as a show of strength by him, a day after his nephew Ajit Pawar led a vertical split in the NCP.
Sharad Pawar left from Pune for Karad on Monday morning and stopped along the way to meet supporters who lined up on roadsides to greet him and extend support to him.
Reacting to The NCP crisis, former J&K Chief Minister And PDP president Mehbooba Mufti told ANI , “They (BJP) kept calling them corrupts and now they have taken them into their government. This shows that BJP is the most corrupt party. BJP has misused the powers of ED, CBI to finish the opposition in the country”.
