NCP chief Sharad Pawar has scoffed at estranged nephew Ajit Pawar바카라s suggestion that he should retire from active politics, saying he will continue working as party workers want him to keep going.
바카라Do you know at what age Morarji Desai became the prime minister? I don바카라t want to become the PM or a minister but only want to serve the people,바카라 Pawar said when asked about Ajit바카라s remark that at 83 years, it was time for his uncle to retire.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar has scoffed at estranged nephew Ajit Pawar바카라s suggestion that he should retire from active politics, saying he will continue working as party workers want him to keep going.
바카라Do you know at what age Morarji Desai became the prime minister? I don바카라t want to become the PM or a minister but only want to serve the people,바카라 Pawar said when asked about Ajit바카라s remark that at 83 years, it was time for his uncle to retire.
Asserting that he was not old yet, Pawar echoed former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's words, saying, "Na tired hu, na retired hu." (I am neither tired nor retired).
"Who are they to tell me to retire? I can still work," Pawar said in an interview to Mumbai Tak, India Today바카라s Marathi digital news channel.
To another query on the succession war in the family after Ajit Pawar바카라s remarks that he was sidelined as he wasn바카라t somebody바카라s (Sharad Pawar바카라s) son, the veteran politician said, 바카라I don't want to say much on this topic. I don바카라t like discussing family issues outside the family.바카라
Pawar said Ajit was made minister and also deputy chief minister but no ministerial position was given to his daughter Supriya Sule even though it was possible.
Whenever NCP got a ministerial berth at the Centre, it was given to others but not to Supriya despite her being a member of Parliament, he added.
A week after Ajit and eight other NCP MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-led ministry in Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar is kickstarting his statewide tour by holding a rally on Saturday at Yeola in Nashik district, the constituency of rebel party leader and minister Chhagan Bhujbal.
choice of Yeola, a small town located 250 km north of Mumbai, to begin his party rebuilding exercise is seen as the octogenarian leader바카라s attempt to rebuild the party.