Ajit Pawar left the stage moments after one other celebration chief was invited to talk earlier than him (File)
Mumbai:
Ajit Pawar, the previous Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, denied as we speak that he walked off the stage at a gathering of the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) on Sunday as a result of he was not allowed to talk.
Ajit Pawar was seen exiting a stage in entrance of his uncle Sharad Pawar and different senior NCP leaders on the celebration’s nationwide conference yesterday. Sharad Pawar was named chief of the celebration for 4 extra years on the two-day occasion.
Solely Jayant Patil, the NCP’s Maharashtra chief, and Sharad Pawar addressed the assembly. Ajit Pawar left the stage simply moments after celebration chief Jayant Patil was invited to talk earlier than him, which fueled stories of a feud.
“Within the nationwide conference of NCP, Maharashtra’s state president Jayant Patil spoke as a result of in such occasions solely the presidents communicate. Nobody stopped me from talking… I went to the washroom – cannot I am going out?” Ajit Pawar requested, apparently irritated by reporters’ questions.
“Media ought to report based mostly on details. I’m right here to talk on the continuing points within the state,” he mentioned.
When the questions continued, Ajit Pawar snapped: “I’m not upset, would you like me to put in writing it on stamp paper?”
The senior NCP chief mentioned he didn’t communicate as a result of it was a national-level assembly. NCP MP Praful Patel had introduced on the stage that Ajit Pawar will communicate earlier than Sharad Pawar’s concluding comment however when the time got here, the previous deputy Chief Minister was lacking.
Later, Mr Patel introduced that Ajit Pawar had excused himself to make use of the restroom and can be again in time to deal with celebration employees who raised slogans in help of the previous deputy Chief Minister.
Information company ANI reported that NCP MP Supriya Sule, Sharad Pawar’s daughter, was seen attempting to influence her cousin to return to the stage.
When Ajit Pawar went again in, Sharad Pawar had already began his closing remarks and he by no means bought an opportunity to talk.
Ajit Pawar broke away from his celebration briefly in 2019, when he joined fingers with the BJP and was sworn in alongside Devendra Fadnavis at the same time as his uncle Sharad Pawar was in the midst of stitching up an alliance with the Shiv Sena and the Congress. After the shock oath ceremony, the federal government lasted solely 80 hours.