Devendra Fadnavis accusations against Sharad Pawar baseless: NCP

The NCP on Friday termed BJP leader Devendra Fadnaviss latest accusations against its president Sharad Pawar on multiple issues as baseless and whimsical and ascribed the allegations to frustration stemming from the MVA constituents growth in Maharashtra as the most preferred partyFadnavis on Thursday launched a noholdsbarred attack on Pawar over the latters statements on various issues including Hindi film The Kashmir Files the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts and Ishrat Jahan a terror suspect killed in a police encounter in Gujarat in 2004 and accused the NCP of indulging in appeasement politics and polarising the society on communal basisIn a series of 14 tweets which coincided with the 131st birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar the former chief minister accused Pawar of going against the wishes and values of the chief architect of the ConstitutionThe BJP leader claimed the former Union agriculture minister was the first person to use the term Hindu terrorFadnavis ji has made baseless and whimsical accusations against Pawar saheb The BJP has realised it is now impossible to stop the growth of the NCP as the most preferred party in MaharashtraHence by calling the NCP communal and targeting Pawar saheb out of frustration Fadnavis is trying to paint a communal picture NCPs state unit chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said in a statementTaking a dig at the Leader of Opposition in the assembly Tapase said MNS chief Raj Thackeray had parroted the same lines as Fadnavis recently while targeting PawarThey cant beat us in numbers and in developmental work So branding the NCP as communal seems to be the latest strategy of the BJP Tapase saidTapase said Pawar has worked tirelessly to bring the most disadvantaged groups in mainstream and caste creed and religions were insignificant to the NCP chiefDr BR Ambedkar as the chairman of the drafting committee of the Constitution had said two things needed to be safeguarded a the principle of equality of opportunity and b the demand of the communities which has had no representation so far Does Fadnavis know this Tapase askedHe accused Fadnavis of misquoting Pawars views on abrogation of Article 370 which accorded special status to JampK after the Centres move in August 2019In the run up to the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls the BJP was trying to build a narrative over Article 370 To this Pawar had said that the BJP is skirting real issues of farmer suicides and rising unemployment in Maharashtra Tapase saidHe further said the former CM has conveniently forgotten that Pawar was the first leader in the country to implement recommendations of the Mandal Commission which was set up by the Morarji Desai government at the CentreDoes Fadnavis have an objection to implementation of the Commissions recommendations and reservation to OBCs as well Tapase askedCountering Fadnavis Tapase said in the aftermath of the 1993 bomb blasts Pawar did mention occurrence of a 13th bomb blast which actually never happened only with a humanitarian angle to prevent a large scale communal riots in Mumbai and other parts of MaharashtraThis act of Pawar was highly appreciated by the Srikrishna Commission which probed 199293 Mumbai riots and March 1993 serial blasts as hundreds of innocent lives were saved Is Fadnavis hinting that by averting a communal clash and saving the lives of hundreds of innocent citizens Pawar saheb did something wrong the NCP spokesperson questionedOr the BJP wanted a communal riot to happen at that time he askedThe NCP spokesperson said all peaceloving citizens of Kashmir Valley including Hindus Muslims Sikhs and Buddhists were subjected to atrocities during insurgency days in the erstwhile state of JampKA film depicting onesided narrative raises suspicion about the behind the scene political intent of the film Fadnavis should elaborate on what plans does the Modi government have to rehabilitate all the displaced citizens back in the Valley he said referring to The Kashmir Files a film based the 1990 exodus of lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits from the ValleyTaking a swipe at the BJP leader Tapase said he has finally made a mention of Ambedkars India while targeting Pawar and hoped the former CM and his party would live up to it in letter and spiritThis 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