Ajit Pawar follows Sharad Pawar’s strategy
Mumbai: Parleys are underway in Delhi and Mumbai to name the Chief Minister as the BJP and the Shiv Sena (BT) continue to be at loggerheads. People asked if Ajit Pawar is in the race.
However, he has preferred to choose the beaten path his uncle Sharad Pawar chose. With 41 seats, he is trying to get as many ministerial berths for his party colleagues as possible. In the fight between the other two alliance partners, the NCP (AP) is trying to make the hay when the sun is shining.
Ajit Pawar has asked Sunil Tatkare to meet Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi in Delhi. Earlier, Tatkare met Devendra Fadnavis too. It was Sharad Pawar’s strategy to win as many ministerial berths as possible by not claiming the Chief Minister’s post. Sharad Pawar even allowed the Congress to have the CM’s post and asked Ajit Pawar to be happy with the DyCM’s post.
Though it is said sarcastically that Ajit Pawar set a record of being the DyCM for four terms. But the NCP took the important Finance, Revenue and Home Ministries. Later, Ajit Pawar criticised this and cried injustice. But he seems to be following the same policy like his uncle.
Ajit Pawar is most likely to be the DyCM and would hold the Finance portfolio. He may lobby to win the Revenue, Women and Child Development and other such ministries. He is also trying to get a few berths at the Centre.
