Supriya Sule said that Ajit Pawar did not need to break the party. He disrupted our lives and chose to leave. He had a choice; if he wanted to keep all this with himself, he could have done so.
Amid the excitement of assembly elections in Maharashtra, NCP founder Sharad Pawar’s daughter and Baramati MP Supriya Sule has taken a dig at her brother and state’s Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. At the India Today Conclave held in Mumbai, she said that if grandfather had asked for it, the party would have been given to him, what was the need to break the party. When she was asked that her father Sharad Pawar was showering more love on her, while the real heir of the party was Ajit Pawar, NCP (Sharad Pawar) working president Supriya Sule said, “Hey, he would have asked for it, I would have given it everything… there was no need to break the party. What is the big deal here… it was his choice to leave.”
Further Sule said that the party led by her father wanted to keep Ajit Dada in the party but he has left us in a mess. Supriya Sule answered every question related to cousin Ajit Dada frankly. Let us tell you that Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar broke the NCP in July last year and joined the NDA alliance and became the Deputy Chief Minister in the state’s Eknath Shinde-led BJP-Shiv Sena government. Junior Pawar then took most of the NCP MLAs with him.
Due to the split in the Nationalist Congress Party, there was a fierce fight over the party’s name and election symbol, after which the Election Commission declared the faction led by Ajit Pawar as the ‘real NCP’ on the basis of the support of the MLAs. The faction led by Sharad Pawar was named Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).
NCP (Sharad) working president Supriya Sule has rejected Sharad Pawar’s allegations of bias towards his daughter. She said, “I am ready for an open debate with Ajit Pawar or anyone from his camp on this issue.” Sule said there was no dispute over succession in the party, but the way Ajit Pawar acted was wrong.
“He disrupted our lives and chose to leave. He had a choice; he should have kept it to himself,” he said. “It was not a battle for succession but a dispute over joining the NDA alliance (Ajit Pawar joining the BJP-Shiv Sena camp),” he said.