Sharad Pawar missed becoming PM twice due to Congress’ Darbar politics, PV Narsimha Rao
MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar had the chance to turn into the Prime Minister on not as soon as however two occassions, however was denied by his detractors in Congress, claimed Praful Patel, an NCP chief and shut confidente of its supremo. He claimed that Pawar could not get the highest submit primarily on account of ‘Darbar Politics’ in Congress.
“A coterie of leaders misused Sonia Gandhi’s name to nix Pawar’s chances in 1991,” he claimed.
The article was revealed in Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana on Saturday, on the 80th birthday of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar.
“After Rajiv Gandhi’s unfortunate death during the Lok Sabha elections in 1991, the Congress was in a state of shock. There was a demand to make Pawar party president to handle the situation. However, the durbar coterie opposed the idea of a strong leader and hatched a plan to make P V Narasimha Rao as the party chief,” Patel, a former union minister stated in an article in Saamana.
The NCP chief stated the recalcitrance of Rao in 1996 to make approach for Pawar led to him lacking out a shot on the high submit once more in 1996.
“In 1996, the Congress won 145 seats. HD Deve Gowda, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav as well as Left leaders said they will support the Congress if Pawar is made PM, but Rao did not budge and the Congress was forced to support Deve Gowda from outside. When Rao stepped down as the Congress president, he pushed the name of Sitaram Kesri as his successor to ensure that Pawar was not selected,” Patel wrote.
He stated within the article that ‘coterie’ inside the Congress labored to undermine sturdy leaders within the occasion. “Pawar strengthened his position as a front-rung leader in the Congress in a very little time. He was surely cut off for a prime ministerial role in 1991 and 1996, but the durbar (nepotism) politics of Delhi put a spanner. This was definitely a personal loss to him, but moreover for the party and the country,” Patel added.
The Congress didn’t formally react to Patel’s article, however a celebration chief, who didn’t need to be recognized, stated Pawar, who had stop the Congress in 1978 solely to rejoin in 1986, was not thought of loyal to the occasion. Also, in 1991 bulk of the Congress MPs got here from the South they usually backed Rao, he claimed.
Less meritorious folks in Congress ensured Pawar didn’t rise to the highest: Shiv Sena
Commenting on Patel’s article, Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut stated that “less meritorious people feared Pawar and ensured he did not rise to the top”. He reiterated that Pawar ought to have turn into prime minister lengthy again, however added that for him, age is not any barrier.
Pawar, a four-time Maharashtra chief minister, was defence minister between June 1991 and March 1993. He stop the Congress in 1999 citing the overseas origin of Sonia Gandhi and fashioned the NCP, however later he joined the UPA authorities headed by the Congress in 2004 and served as Union agriculture minister for the following ten years when Manmohan Singh was the prime minister.
Last 12 months, Pawar was instrumental within the formation of the NCP-Congress mix’s unlikely tie-up with the Shiv Sena after the Thackeray-led occasion fell out with ally BJP following the meeting polls.
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