Tensions between the Maharashtra government allies Congress and the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) continued to simmer, with Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole accusing the latter of trying to “finish-off” the Congress and aid the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since the inception of the three-party ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ (MVA) coalition in late 2019.
Mr. Patole further said that he had conveyed instances of the NCP’s ‘treachery’ to the Congress’ high command during the recently-concluded three-day Chintan Shivir of the Congress in Udaipur in Rajasthan.
“The way in which the NCP has been behaving with the Congress for the last two-and-a-half years since the MVA’s formation, be it showing discrimination in the allocation of funds or poaching the Congress members to the NCP in the Bhiwandi civic body, the trouble they have caused during the Amravati bank election or the Bhandara-Gondia Zilla Parishad election. It looks like they have been consistently attempting to stamp out the Congress at the local and the State level,” alleged the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) chief, observing that the three-party MVA ought to run on ideas and not merely for holding on to power.
