Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said his party’s stand of not joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party was always very clear, and even if any suggestion to the contrary came up, he refused to entertain the idea.
“If anyone did suggest that we should support the BJP, contrary to the stand we had taken, [even] then, many in the party, myself included, did not agree. Our stand to not go with the BJP was very clear,” said the former Maharashtra Chief Minister at a news conference in Pune.
“Our views are not coherent with [the ideology of] the BJP. We had not asked for votes in the assembly elections to ally with the BJP, but to fight against them. I was firm in my stand that those who believed in our ideology would be betrayed if we went with the BJP,” he added.
