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When Chavan headed the Congress-NCP coalition government between 2010 and 2014, Pawar was the deputy chief minister (Photo: ANI)
The NCP leader said, “Prithviraj Chavan never served as an MLA here. He was not aware of the kind of treatment we got from people in power. He had no experience of the state cabinet.”
Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar said on Friday that the reason for the rift between him and the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan was that he had no experience in state politics.
Pawar was the deputy chief minister when Chavan headed the Congress-NCP coalition government between 2010 and 2014.
Asked about the rift between him and Chavan during an interview at an event organized by Lokmat media group here, Pawar said Chavan never even served as an MLA in the state as he mostly lives in Delhi. Lived in
“Prithviraj Chavan never served as an MLA here. He was not aware of the kind of treatment we got from those in power… He had no experience of the state cabinet,” the NCP leader said.
“He was working in the PMO and there is a difference between state politics and Delhi politics,” Pawar said.
Chavan, who was a minister in the Manmohan Singh government, became chief minister after Ashok Chavan resigned over allegations of the Adarsh scam.
Pawar further said, even though the NCP and the Congress were allies, some issues cropped up and as a result “some people” felt close to the political rivals, while the NCP appeared “remote” to them.
This led to the defeat of the Democratic Front government in 2014, he said.
Asked what was his party’s biggest mistake in the past, Pawar said it was the decision not to stake claim for the chief minister’s post in 2004, even though the NCP had won more seats than ally Congress.
Pawar said that leaders like him had to accept the decision as he was a “junior” in the party then.
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