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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has said the decision of his nephew Ajit Pawar to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party to form a government in Maharashtra was an act of indiscipline and attracts provisions of anti-defection law.
Pawar was addressing a joint press conference with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai.
“Ajit Pawar’s decision is an act of indiscipline. No NCP worker is in favour of the NCP-BJP government. NCP MLAs who support the BJP should know this move attracts provisions of anti-defection law,” he said.
Whenever elections are held in the constituencies of these legislators, Congress-NCP and Shiv Sena would unitedly defeat them, he added.
He said 54 newly-elected legislators of the NCP had signed a paper along with their names and constituencies for internal purpose and these signatures may have been misused as letter of support and submitted to the governor.
“If this is true, the governor has also been misled,” Pawar said, adding that the paper may have been taken by Ajit Pawar as the leader of the legislature party.
He said those MLAs, who were taken to the Raj Bhavan for oath-taking without their knowledge, have contacted him and informed how they were misled.
