PUNE: Deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Sunday confronted protests from BJP employees in Narayangaon throughout his go to to the city for NCP‘s Jan Sanman Yatra.
They waved black flags and raised slogans towards the NCP chief for not inviting native Mahayuti alliance companions for a evaluate assembly on a number of improvement tasks associated to native tourism. Junnar was declared Maharashtra’s first ‘particular tourism zone’ by the state govt in 2018.
BJP employees claimed that Ajit Pawar, who can be guardian minister of Pune district, known as the executive officer for a gathering on Sunday morning. Native NCP employees have been additionally invited to the assembly, however no person from BJP obtained the invitation regardless of being a part of the Mahayuti alliance.
Former zilla parishad chairman Asha Buchake mentioned native NCP employees had put up banners on the assembly venue which had no pictures of CM Eknath Shinde and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. Solely Ajit Pawar and Junnar MLA Atul Benke’s pictures have been on the banners. “It was a govt assembly and never of any political get together, therefore we should always have been invited as we now have been following up a number of tasks for our area with the CM and deputy CM for years. He (Ajit Pawar) ought to make clear why NCP put up banners with the get together title,” Buchake mentioned. She added that earlier, Pawar held related conferences for improvement tasks of Junnar, and solely selective folks have been invited.
NCP spokesperson Amol Mitkari mentioned Fadnavis ought to make clear whether or not he desires the Mahayuti alliance to proceed within the state. “The deputy CM ought to instantly make clear his stand on whether or not it (BJP) desires to contest the meeting election as Mahayuti alliance and whether or not he has given a free hand to his get together employees to do something throughout the state. It was not a political occasion, and it was an occasion organised by NCP,” he mentioned whereas interacting with mediapersons in Akola. Ajit Pawar later addressed a gathering in Narayangaon as a part of ‘Jan Sanman Yatra’.
The Pune rural police confirmed that not less than 30 to 35 folks have been detained from the protest venue in Narayangaon, and have been later launched.
Santosh Khaire, Junnar taluka president of BJP, mentioned, “Sarpanch of a number of villages who have been supporting NCP have been invited to the assembly, however no person from the BJP was known as.”
