MUMBAI: In a serious embarrassment for the Mahayuti govt, Shiv Sena minister Tanaji Sawant on Thursday stated he has by no means obtained together with the NCP management and merely being of their proximity induces an antagonistic bodily response: Sawant stated he sits subsequent to the NCP (Ajit Pawar) within the cupboard however when he comes out of the assembly, he throws up.
“I’ve by no means obtained together with the NCP all my life, we sit subsequent to one another, however after we come out, we vomit.I’m a hardcore Shiv Sainik. I’ve by no means obtained together with Congress and NCP in my life. I’ve by no means gotten alongside since I used to be a scholar. That is the truth. Right this moment, even when I sit within the cupboard with them (NCP), I vomit after popping out. I am unable to stand it,” Sawant stated whereas talking at a public occasion.
The response from NCP leaders was comparatively delicate. “Tanaji Sawant doesn’t know what causes vomiting. Tanaji Sawant is the well being minister, well being would have one thing to do with it. However being within the Mahayuti, if they’re vomiting, solely Eknath Shinde can inform us what’s inflicting it,” stated NCP (Ajit Pawar) MLC Amol Mitkari.
Sawant’s statements have led to controversies previously too. Final yr, Sawant who’s the state public well being minister from the Shiv Sena, instructed a senior police officer in Dharashiv (Osmanabad) district that he doesn’t even take heed to the chief minister, so the officer must do as Sawant says. In a video that went viral, he was seen talking to Dharashiv superintendent of police Atul Kulkarni and purportedly insisting on the switch of a police inspector (PI) within the district.
Earlier in March, Sawant had stated that as many as 100 to 150 conferences had been held with the assist of Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde to persuade a piece of Shiv Sena MLAs to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt. Sawant stated Uddhav Thackeray didn’t give him a cupboard berth in 2019 and enraged by that, he engineered a riot in Sena in Jan 2020. Sawant stated he began by forming an alliance with BJP within the Dharashiv Zilla Parishad.
