'What Went Wrong?' Ajit Pawar & Devendra Fadnavis To Explain At An "Appropriate Time"

MLA Ajit Pawar, who won the October 21 state polls from Pune's Baramati seat with a margin of 1.65 lakh votes, sent shock waves across the political circles of Maharashtra and and to his family last Saturday after he joined hands with the BJP and became deputy chief minister in the Devendra Fadnavis-led government.

Mumbai (Maharashtra): Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar are being hard-pressed to explain how they came together to form the Maharashtra government surreptitiously in the early hours of Saturday. Both, however, maintained on Wednesday that they will speak at an "appropriate time" on what made them team up and why the government was so short-lived. NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Tuesday stepped down as Dy CM citing "personal reason", following which Fadnavis too quit as chief minister, leading to collapse of the BJP-led government that lasted for mere 80 hours. While exiting the Maharashtra assembly this morning, Ajit Pawar told ABP News that he is "not upset with the party, continues to be in the NCP and Sharad Pawar will remain the leader". On whether he is now jockeying for a ministerial berth in the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government, Pawar said "it is up to the party to decide". When queried about how he and Fadnavis got into an understanding and formed the government in the wee hours of November 23, an edgy Pawar said "I will explain everything in a press conference and it up to me when I want to tell that". A similar stance was taken by former CM Devendra Fadnavis today who said he'll disclose everything at an appropriate time. MLA Ajit Pawar, who won the October 21 state polls from Pune's Baramati seat with a margin of 1.65 lakh votes, sent shock waves across the political circles of Maharashtra and and to his family last Saturday after he joined hands with the BJP and became deputy chief minister in the Devendra Fadnavis-led government. The stealthy move of Ajit Pawar came like a bolt from the blue to the NCP which subsequently sacked him as its legislature unit leader the same day but did not show him the doors from the party in a hope of a volte-face.