Bhujbal mentioned that Pawar has the aptitude to take each one (different political events) within the nation alongside.
“Immediately, a number of the nation’s opposition is trying to him (Pawar) with hope. The miracle you (Pawar) have achieved in Maharashtra (by cobbling collectively a coalition of Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP to type a authorities), it’s best to do the identical miracle in 2024 in Delhi,” mentioned Bhujbal at a celebration programme organised in Mumbai.
Kolhe, the NCP MP from Shirur, mentioned get together functionaries must work arduous to make Pawar the prime minister. “The nation wants your (Pawar) steering at present. If Gujarat, a state which has 26 MPs can have their prime minister, then why cannot a state with 48 MPs (Maharashtra) have a first-rate minister? Why cannot he (Pawar) occupy the topmost publish within the nation (the PM’s chair). We’ve got to assume and work for it,” Kolhe mentioned.
Later, Rohit Pawar, grand nephew of the NCP chief, instructed mediapersons, “This isn’t a combat for the publish (of the PM) however for preserving democracy and if Pawar sahib takes the lead and if different leaders help him, then there can be an alternative choice to the BJP.”
The NCP leaders’ statements come simply days after Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met Pawar the place she sought to challenge herself as a pacesetter to go an opposition alliance in opposition to the BJP for the 2024 polls.
The NCP, since its inception, had all the time projected Pawar as a PM candidate in the course of the parliamentary polls at any time when the get together felt that there was going to be a hung Parliament. In a number of NCP bastions, votes have been sought by projecting Pawar because the PM. This continued until the 2009 parliamentary polls. Later, Ajit Pawar used to publicly chide get together leaders for projecting the NCP chief because the PM candidate or himself (Ajit Pawar) because the chief minister candidate because it used to unnerve its allies (primarily the Congress) who used to then work in opposition to the NCP within the elections.