BJP and morality contradictory to each other: Sharad Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party and morality are contradictory to each other and asserted that the Supreme Courts verdict on last years Maharashtra political crisis will help the MVA convince people about BJPs misuse of authorityEarlier in the day the top court held the Maharashtra governor was not justified in calling upon then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to prove majority in the Assembly on June 30 last year but refused to order status quo ante saying he did not face the floor test and resignedPawar made the statement when he was asked for his views about the demands of the Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena UBT and the Congress that Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde should resign after the SC rulingPawar said The BJP and morality are contradictory to each other What more can I commentThe veteran politician said The BJPs strategy is to break smaller parties and form the government if they cannot win on their own This is not good for democracyAlso Read Nitish Kumar Sharad Pawar discuss strengthening opposition unity ahead of Lok Sabha pollsHowever the Supreme Courts decision could help iquestus MVA easily convince people how BJP misuses authority he saidPawar declined to say more on the SC observation that Thackeray had resigned on his own Let bygones be bygones From here Congress Shiv Sena UBT and the NCP will work together and face the elections The MVA has these three parties as partnersThe NCP chief criticised the former Maharashtra governor who also was pulled up by the apex courtPawar said I had already expressed my views about the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari The office of the governor is a constitutional institution He was a good example of how to disrespect an institution Luckily he is not here so there is no need to comment on it any furtherThe Supreme Court on Thursday held that it cannot restore the then Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government led by Uddhav Thackeray as he resigned without facing the floor test in June last yearIn a unanimous verdict on a batch of pleas related to the political crisis that led to the fall of the threeparty MVA government led by Thackeray following a revolt by the Shinde faction a fivejudge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud held that the then Speakers decision to appoint Bharat Gogawale of the Shinde faction as the whip of Shiv Sena was illegalThe court said the then governor Koshyari did not have reasons based on objective material before him to reach the conclusion that then chief minister Thackeray had lost the confidence of the HouseThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever