Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) boss Sharad Pawar said the toppling of the 2019’s short-lived Devendra Fadnavis-Ajit Pawar government was an outcome of his (political) googly that exposed that the BJP could go with anyone just to be in power.

Pawar was responding to Fadnavis’s statements in a media interview that the NCP chief had agreed to form the government with the BJP, but backed off in 3-4 days, leaving Ajit Pawar no option but to take oath of the deputy chief minister’s office while Fadnavis was sworn in as the CM in the morning of November 23, 2019.