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BJP's demand for more seats in BMC polls will lead to break-up with ally Shiv Sena: Sharad Pawar

NCP president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the honeymoon between the BJP and the Shiv Sena will be over once the issue of seat-sharing crops up on the eve of BMC election, leading to instability and mid-term polls in the state.

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NCP president Sharad Pawar with party’s state president Sunil Tatkare (left) and NCP leader Dilip Walse Patil during a meeting at YB Chavan centre in Nariman Point on Wednesday
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NCP president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the honeymoon between the BJP and the Shiv Sena will be over once the issue of seat-sharing crops up on the eve of BMC election, leading to instability and mid-term polls in the state.

Speaking to media persons after the party's general body meeting, Pawar said it was one of the BJP leaders who had told him that the BJP would demand more seats as the civic body election nears and this, he said, will result in strained relations between the two allies.

During the campaign for Bandra East assembly polls a fortnight ago, Pawar had predicted that the state would have mid-term polls. Speaking about the same, Pawar said the BJP won more seats during the assembly elections in Mumbai and, hence, it is obvious that it would ask for more seats. If the same formula is used for seat sharing for the BMC polls, Pawar said, there can't be any other conclusion than what I said.

The former union minister also said his party will take a serious stand on bringing parties with progressive ideologies together against the "communal BJP and Shiv Sena". The NCP, however, will ensure that its own identity is not affected in the process, he added.

Pawar said the Bihar elections have brought all secular forces together and this realignment will pave the way for crystallising the changing political picture in the country. He added that even though Maharashtra has been progressive and Bihar is among the "Bimaru states", it was the late Jaiprakash Narayan's movement in Bihar that started action against emergency.

Pawar added that the Centre has failed on all counts and that barring a handful of effective ministers, others are not serious about their job.

On farmer suicides
While addressing party workers, Pawar criticised the state government for the growing number of farmer suicides in the state. He said, "The state's farmers are in such a bad shape that the last four months have seen the maximum number of suicides. I never thought the time to tell the state government, that they have ceased the right to be in power, would come so early."

On the Gandhi scion
When asked about his reaction on Rahul Gandhi's absence for 56 days from the political scene and returning to hold a farmers' rally as well as a Vidarbha tour to meet farmers' families, Pawar said, "Let's leave aside the fact that he had gone on leave, we should look at the fact that he has come back and has started working immediately. It will help to create public opinion against this government, whosoever takes up the farmers' cause."

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