Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has assured his party workers that he would not ally with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) till his last breath and exhorted them not to believe speculation regarding the same, said NCP leaders from Pune who recently met with Mr. Pawar in Delhi.
Prashant Jagtap, the Pune city NCP president and a Sharad Pawar loyalist, said on Wednesday that at a meeting of NCP workers from Pune in Delhi earlier this week, Mr. Pawar had categorically told them he would never align himself to a party with “a wrong ideology.”
“On August 7, we had a meeting with Sharad Pawar in Delhi More than 200 workers from Pune met him. He heard out the confusion prevailing in their minds and clearly told them he would never ally with the BJP till his last breath. The workers should be under no doubt on this count and not place trust on the gossip and rumours floating about on social media,” said Mr. Jagtap, who was on a tour of Manipur in a bid to show succour to the troubled northeastern state.
