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PUNE: NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday backed Union home minister Amit Shah’s stand that the country’s cooperative sector needs to introspect why it’s been shrinking instead of just hoping for a bailout, saying “we have no differences on the issues raised by him”.
“Amit Shah was at a programme (in Pune) related to the sugar industry. I had gone for the inauguration and he was at the concluding ceremony. There were some policy matters that we discussed, and he spoke about it later,” Pawar said. The Maharashtra strongman’s support for Shah’s call to cooperatives to improve processes as a first step contrasted with his refusal to wade into the debate on ally Shiv Sena’s name and symbol going to the Eknath Shinde faction. “I don’t wish to get into whatever is going on about the bow and arrow (Shiv Sena party symbol),” he told reporters in Baramati. On the alleged transfer of funds from Sena’s account to a private one in ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray’s name, Pawar again dodged the question. “It isn’t appropriate for me to speak on an issue that I don’t know about. So, I will not comment,” he said.
The Election Commission on Friday recognised Shinde’s faction as the “real” Shiv Sena. Both factions had laid claim to the bow-and-arrow party symbol. In his first comments on the EC’s verdict, Pawar said Uddhav should accept the decision and start afresh. “The citizens will accept him. This isn’t the first case in our country involving the loss of a party symbol.”
“Amit Shah was at a programme (in Pune) related to the sugar industry. I had gone for the inauguration and he was at the concluding ceremony. There were some policy matters that we discussed, and he spoke about it later,” Pawar said. The Maharashtra strongman’s support for Shah’s call to cooperatives to improve processes as a first step contrasted with his refusal to wade into the debate on ally Shiv Sena’s name and symbol going to the Eknath Shinde faction. “I don’t wish to get into whatever is going on about the bow and arrow (Shiv Sena party symbol),” he told reporters in Baramati. On the alleged transfer of funds from Sena’s account to a private one in ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray’s name, Pawar again dodged the question. “It isn’t appropriate for me to speak on an issue that I don’t know about. So, I will not comment,” he said.
The Election Commission on Friday recognised Shinde’s faction as the “real” Shiv Sena. Both factions had laid claim to the bow-and-arrow party symbol. In his first comments on the EC’s verdict, Pawar said Uddhav should accept the decision and start afresh. “The citizens will accept him. This isn’t the first case in our country involving the loss of a party symbol.”
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