The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Karnataka Assembly election is part of an emerging pattern of people turning against it across the country, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said.
Mr. Pawar, who will be attending the swearing-in of the Congress government led by Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru on May 20, told The Hindu in an exclusive interview that the defeat of the BJP in 2024 was in the “national interest”, adding that he had no personal ambitions after being in various positions of power for over six decades.
“I have no personal ambition… My only ambition is to bring together parties and provide an alternative to the BJP,” Mr. Pawar said in a candid, exhaustive conversation that spanned the political situation in the country, the leadership of any future non-BJP formation, the Shiv Sena (UBT)-Congress relationship and his nephew Ajit Pawar’s alleged ties with the BJP.
