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The Hindu
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National
Shoumojit Banerjee

Sanjay Raut, Sharad Pawar make new claims on history of wrangling over Maharashtra CM’s post

Sharad Pawar Ajit Pawar Sanjay Raut NCP Eknath Shinde Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Chhagan Bhujbal MVA Uddhav Thackeray Maharashtra

As Lok Sabha polling in Maharashtra draws to a close, a series of “disclosures” are being made by opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders like Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut on the Chief Minister’s post in the recent political past.

Mr. Raut claimed on Sunday that top Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, who are part of the current Mahayuti coalition government in Maharashtra helmed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, had apparently objected to Mr. Shinde being CM back in 2019.

Mr. Raut claimed that when the undivided Shiv Sena, headed by Uddhav Thackeray, decided to ally with the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s undivided NCP, several Congress and NCP leaders like Ajit Pawar, Dilip Walse-Patil and Sunil Tatkare — all part of the present Mahayuti government — had opposed Mr. Shinde being made CM. They said they would not work under “a junior and inexperienced person like him.”

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