Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) accused Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, was attempting to get attention by misusing Sharad Pawar's name to outshine CM Eknath Shinde.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Fadnavis in an interview to a TV channel recently claimed Pawar agreed to form government with the BJP in 2019 and then backed off after three-four days.
Reacting to the deputy CM's claim, NCP national spokesperson Clyde Crasto in a statement said, After being subdued by Eknath Shinde in advertisements in the past few days, Devendra Fadnavis is now trying to garner publicity on his own, he is therefore misusing the name of Sharad Pawar in interviews, to gain free publicity and outshine Eknath Shinde.
After the 2019 Assembly elections in Maharashtra, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (then undivided) snapped ties with long-term ally BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post.