Saying that the 2024 Lok Sabha election results would not see ‘a Modi wave’ but a ‘Modi tsunami’, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on April 3 took potshots at NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar for helping to make Wardha in the State’s Vidarbha region a “Congress-free” zone.
Addressing a rally in Wardha while campaigning for the BJP candidate, incumbent MP Ramdas Tadas, Mr. Fadnavis mocked the Congress and Mr. Pawar by saying: “We must thank Pawar saaheb for achieving what we [BJP] could not do in Wardha. He ensured that the Congress symbol disappears from here.”
Mr. Fadnavis was alluding to the fact that the Congress could not find a suitable candidate in Wardha, despite Mahatma Gandhi’s association with the place. The Sevagram Ashram in Wardha was Gandhiji’s residence from 1936 onwards.
