Every relationship has an expiry date: Ajit Pawar faces opposition from brother

“Just like every medicine has an expiry date, similarly every relationship also has an expiry date. Consider it an ending and move on with life,” Srinivas Pawar said at a public meeting in Maharashtra, taking a dig at his brother Ajit Pawar. He also said that the NCP founder made Ajit Pawar the Deputy CM four times, but the latter kept asking what the NCP founder had done for him.

The video of Srinivas Pawar’s speech invoking his brother is circulating on the internet. In the viral video, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s younger brother Srinivas Pawar can be heard criticizing Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar for leaving him.

As a result of which there was a split in the NCP. The faction led by him got the party name and ‘clock’ symbol, while Sharad Pawar’s organization is now called NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar). In the video, Srinivas Pawar (60), while talking to residents of Katewadi village in Baramati, said that the NCP founder stood by Ajit Pawar through thick and thin. Srinivas Pawar claimed that Sharad Pawar had supported Ajit Pawar’s decisions, made him deputy CM four times and a minister for 25 years and it was “unbecoming” for anyone to speak ill about the old age of such a philanthropist. Srinivas Pawar can be heard saying, “When we (Srinivas and Ajit Pawar) spoke after the split, I told him that you should continue to contest from Baramati Assembly seat and also contest the Lok Sabha elections from here (Sharad) Pawar sir.” “Will be fought under the leadership of.” , Saying he was not ready to leave the NCP founder just because he was 83, Srinivas Pawar said some of his friends had advised him to go with Ajit Pawar “because the future is with him”. The deputy CM’s younger brother said in the video, “The thought that we are not at all sensitive towards an elderly person is very painful for me. Anyone who has such a thought (of abandoning the elderly) is an unworthy person.” ” Incidentally, Ajit Pawar has often talked about senior Pawar’s age and has asked the elder to retire and hand over the leadership of NCP to the next generation. Taking a dig at the Deputy CM, he said, “How can anyone muster the courage to ask such a person (Sharad Pawar) to retire and stay at home? I don’t like such a personality.” On the events that have affected the party and its first family since July, he said, “Just like every medicine has an expiry date, every relationship also has an expiry date. Consider it an expiry and move ahead in life.” Grow.” Srinivas Pawar said that the NCP founder made Ajit Pawar the Deputy CM four times but he kept asking what this octogenarian leader had done for him. “I would have been very happy to have such an uncle,” he said, adding that the rift in the party and family appeared to be “a ploy by the BJP and RSS to destroy Pawar Saheb’s name”. He stressed, “One should not think that a person is weak because he has grown old.”

(more to come)

Milestone alert!
Livemint tops charts as fastest growing news website in the world Click here to find out more.

Unlock a world of benefits! From informative newsletters to real-time stock tracking, breaking news and personalized newsfeeds – it’s all here, just a click away! log in now!

Published: March 18, 2024, 05:15 PM IST