Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar’s exhortation in a meeting with young MLAs from the three parties in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would never come to power in Maharashtra appears to have irked the saffron party, which took to social media to question the veteran leader’s ability to winning elections.
On Thursday, seven young MLAs of the MVA met Mr. Pawar. Results from the recently concluded polls in five States were among the subjects discussed. Mr. Pawar told them that the BJP would not be able to form a government in Maharashtra, and “We [the MVA] will not let that happen.”
The Maharashtra unit of the BJP shot back that people stood supreme in a democracy and decided who got elected. The BJP’s official Maharashtra handle tweeted: “Other regional parties formed governments in two states within 10 years but you cannot cross three and half districts. Try to make a chief minister of your party which you couldn’t do in 55 years.”
