JOIN USNationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar on Wednesday reiterated that his party will continue giving support to Congress because they are not in favour of destabilising the country at present.
A crisis has erupted in Maharashtra after deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar resigned following allegations of irregularities in irrigation projects during his tenure as water resources minister between 1999 and 2009. In a press conference in Kolkata, Sharad Pawar said: “We are going to give support to Congress at the centre and in Maharashtra. There is no question of withdrawal of support. We don’t want to destabilise the country at present”.
The Union agricultural minister who came to Kolkata to attend the first meeting of the chief ministers’ committee of “Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India,” said: “The NCP legislative party on Wednesday held and requested Ajit Pawar to reconsider his decision.
However the NCP legislative party unanimously decided that the NCP national President (Sharad Pawar himself) will take the final call and his decision will be final”. "When a leader takes a step, party members react (but) the decision-making rests with the senior leadership," he said.
Asked whether Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan should go back to Delhi, where he was earlier a powerful minister in the PMO, Pawar said, "Whether Chavan should be there (as chief minister of Maharashtra) in Mumbai or Delhi is the internal issue of Congress, it is a prerogative of Congress and we have no view."