Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis says since Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has always wanted to drop the Congress, he is supporting TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s effort of keeping the Gandhi family-led party away from the proposed anti-BJP opposition front.

“Banerjee speaks directly. But Pawar speaks between the lines and conveys the same feeling that the Bengal CM has expressed about the Congress,” Fadnavis said on Thursday, adding that Pawar wanted the Congress out from the very beginning, but has no option, at least in Maharashtra.