A day after the national executive of the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) youth wing passed a resolution recommending NCP president Sharad Pawar’s name as a chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), a number of Congress MLAs from Maharashtra have sought to meet party president Sonia Gandhi, who currently heads the UPA.
The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has termed both developments as examples of mistrust between the allies of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, which rules Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole played down the MLAs’ request to meet Ms. Gandhi and said that meeting the party leadership shouldn’t be seen through political prism. “What is wrong in MLAs wanting to meet party leaders? There could be many issues that they want to discuss. This rumour about a threat to the State government is absolutely baseless,” he said.
