NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Saturday that his nephew Ajit Pawar’s decision to join the Maharashtra government amounted to the betrayal of the trust of the electorate as people did not vote for them to go with the BJP. “All NCP leaders used to discuss all sorts of things with me. He had proposed that we should go with the BJP. I never agreed to that because people had not voted for us to go with the BJP. They had voted for a certain programme that we had put forward. In fact, we had sought votes against the BJP. So going against that would have amounted to cheating the voters,” Pawar told reporters in Pune. ‘Waiting for Praful Patel’s book’ Pawar also came down heavily on his former colleague Praful Patel, who claimed earlier this week that the NCP had plans to ally with the BJP in 2003. “He spent hours trying to convince me to go with BJP, but I told him it was not possible for me,” he said. Asked about Patel’s statement that he was privy to so many secrets that he could write a book, Pawar said. “I am waiting for his book. Hopefully he will write a chapter about why people quit a party and defect. He should also write about the ED raids on his home and how many floors of the building were attached by the ED and why? He should write about all this so that it will add to our knowledge.”
