Forming Government With Ajit Pawar Was A Mistake: Devendra Fadnavis
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Devendra Fadnavis said that the decision to form the government with Ajit Pawar was a result of "mixed feelings".
Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday described his teaming up with Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar to form a short-lived 80-hour government in the state in 2019 as a "mistake", adding he "does not regret it". "I don't regret it but we should not have formed such a government. This was a mistake," the BJP leader said during an online interaction with editors of Marathi daily Loksatta. On November 23, 2019, amid hectic parleys between the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress to form a non-BJP government in the state after the polls threw up a hung Assembly, Mr Fadnavis and Mr Pawar were sworn-in at dawn in a ceremony at Raj Bhavan. "Even if this (forming the government with Ajit Pawar) was a mistake, when you are stabbed in the back, you have to stay alive in politics," Mr Fadnavis said, referring to Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray ''reneging'' on the pre-poll alliance with the BJP.More Related News