Misuse of central agencies in Maharashtra-Bengal, BJP wants power at any cost: Sharad Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Friday attacked the BJP, alleging that central agencies were being used extensively in Maharashtra and West Bengal as those ruling at the Center were in any case not able to handle these. Want the power of two states.

Talking to reporters, Pawar said the recent statements made by parties like MNS (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) and BJP on the use of loudspeakers in mosques may spoil the atmosphere in the state. Pawar also hinted that the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) constituents Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress may join forces in the next assembly elections as well. Assembly elections are to be held in Maharashtra at the end of the year 2024.

On the power crisis arising in the state, Pawar said that the MVA government has taken the issue seriously and is taking all steps to resolve it. Earlier, speaking at a program, the NCP President praised the loan waiver of Rs 72,000 crore for farmers during his tenure as Union Agriculture Minister.

“Central agencies are being used extensively in two states of the country,” Pawar told reporters. One is West Bengal and the other is Maharashtra. It is clear that those who are ruling the country want power in these two states at any cost. He said that the people and elected representatives of these two states are also not cooperating with the BJP to form the government, so those whose hopes have been dashed are busy interfering in these two states, as a result of which raids are being conducted. is.

NCP President Party Yeh Sahyog was responding to a query on the remarks of Eknath Khadse who was present at the event. He was asked how the situation in Maharashtra would have been different had the BJP leaders been jailed for alleged irregularities in the context of the probe agency’s raids.

On the question of some parties targeting loudspeakers above mosques, Pawar said people need to stand united to ensure communal harmony. Responding to a question, Pawar said MNS chief Raj Thackeray may be groping the path of Hindutva from his recent speeches and statements. At the same time, he said that there is no need to talk about a party which has been rejected by the people in the elections.

According to news agency PTI, on the power crisis, he said, “Apart from Maharashtra, states like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are also facing coal shortage.” He said that Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is very serious about this issue and aims to provide relief to the people soon.

‘Riot could have been averted by my statement about blast in Muslim dominated area’

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said his statement that there was a blast in a Muslim-majority area on March 12, 1993, had not allowed fresh communal violence in Mumbai.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday referred to a deliberately untrue statement made by Pawar 29 years ago and accused Pawar’s party (NCP) of indulging in the politics of appeasement. Former Chief Minister Fadnavis had said in a series of tweets, “On March 12, 1993, when Mumbai was devastated by serial blasts, Sharad Pawar ji imagined another blast in a Muslim area. Appeasement was his first priority rather than law and order. Why this double standard when we expect communal harmony?

Asked by reporters in Jalgaon about the allegation, Pawar said he had said this because he wanted to foil the plans of outside forces to create communal tension in the city. “An allegation he (Fadnavis) has made is that I had announced that the bomb blasts took place at 12 places instead of 11 (the actual number). I had mentioned a Muslim area (as the 12th blast site).

Pawar said, ‘It is a hundred percent correct. I said so. Because the 11 places where the blasts took place were important places of Hindus like Siddhivinayak Temple. Pawar was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra at that time. “I personally checked the material used in the blasts… this kind of material is not made in India,” he said. It means that a neighboring country wanted to fight Hindus and Muslims with each other and wanted to burn Mumbai. Local Muslims were not involved in this…I had said that the 12th blast site is Mohammad Ali Road. So that there is no riot.

According to news agency PTI, Pawar further said that the Justice Srikrishna Commission, which probed the incident, had said that if he had not taken this stand, Mumbai would have burnt down. Hitting back at Fadnavis, Pawar said, “Therefore, we do not need to pay attention to the statements of people who do not understand and who do not understand the seriousness of the issue.” In a series of 14 tweets on the occasion of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, Fadnavis had also accused Pawar of going against Ambedkar’s wishes and values.

The NCP chief on Friday said he did not know why Fadnavis was linking him with casteism. Pawar said there have been leaders from different communities since becoming the state unit chief of the NCP. Pawar said, “It does not show that the party’s policy is limited to one caste. He (Fadnavis) has nothing more to say. Hence, he is making such allegations.