"This Is Injustice": Sharad Pawar Raises Probe Against Ally With PM

PM Modi-Sharad Pawar Meeting: The two spoke for about 20 minutes at PM Modi’s office in parliament.

Sharad Pawar & PM Modi — Photo: Daily India News

In a buzzy meeting today with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar raised the central probe agencies’ action against leaders of Maharashtra’s ruling coalition and other politicians bitterly opposed to the BJP.The two spoke for about 20 minutes at PM Modi’s office in parliament, hours after the Enforcement Directorate seized the properties of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s wife Varsha Raut and a relative of Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Satyendra Jain in an alleged money laundering case.

“On what basis was action taken against Sanjay Raut? This is injustice. What’s the provocation for action against Raut – just because he is making some statements?” Sharad Pawar told reporters as he shared what he had discussed with PM Modi.

This morning, the CBI took custody of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, a senior leader of Sharad Pawar’s party.

He also dismissed talk of any turmoil within the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition that he helped stitch up in 2019 after the Shiv Sena broke up with its long-term ally BJP. “We will fight together in next elections…the MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi). There is a stability, I am answering these questions for the last two-and-a-half years,” Mr Pawar said.

Significantly, the PM’s meeting with one of the senior most opposition politicians in the country also took place months before the Presidential election.

Mr Pawar again stressed that he was not ready to lead the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition that, led by the Congress, ruled the country for 10 years. Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of the UPA.

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-modi-ncps-sharad-pawar-meeting-parliament-news-pms-20-minute-meeting-with-ncp-chief-sharad-pawar-sparks-buzz-2866118