In response to the BJP attack on the supposed criminal backgrounds of candidates of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has replied that accusing someone is not guilt.
In reaction to comments by the BJP leader, Murlidhar Mohol, Pawar added that the case registered against people should not be viewed as evidence of wrongdoing unless proved in court. The question is: How could one be considered a guilty person when the crime is registered against him/her tomorrow, prior to detecting the crime? According to a news agency known as PTI, Pawar inquired.
Pawar did not mention the BJP but made the point that he is now sharing power with the very same party that had, on previous occasions, made some grave accusations against him. Citing the irrigation scam allegations worth ₹70,000 crore, Pawar remarked that those who had levelled the allegations against me were they on my side today or not.
Pawar also raised this question of the BJP about its moral stand and asked who was also assisting some of the fugitives to escape, and he wanted the previous 15 years to be examined, and who had contested the party with people of criminal backgrounds. Shall those who query us look themselves, he said.
The comments are made following the allegations made by Mohol on hypocrisy by the NCP party, where they claim to address crime in Pune, yet have amassed candidates with dubious histories in East, South, and North Pune.
This political trade-off has been overheated leading up to the PMC elections, in which the BJP and NCP, although in an alliance in the Maharashtra government, are fighting civic polls individually.
To make the situation even more awkward, Ajit Pawar has now allied once again with the Sharad Pawar section of NCP pre-PMC election, and this has paved the way to a direct political tussle within the wider Mahayuti tie.
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