If merger talks were on, Ajitdada would have told us: CM Fadnavis | India News – The Times of India

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis (PTI photograph)

MUMBAI: CM Devendra Fadnavis Sunday stated that they had no concept concerning the discussions of a merger of the 2 NCPs nor concerning the date of merger.“If discussions on merger had gone to a closing stage, Ajitdada would have knowledgeable us… He’s in our govt and with out sharing with us would he have taken a choice? I have no concept on what talks occurred between him and Sharad Pawar. So far as we’re involved, we have no concept concerning the merger,” he stated.The CM’s assertion got here a day after NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar claimed that Feb 12 had been finalised to announce a merger between the 2 NCP factions.Chatting with the media, Fadnavis stated: “If Ajit Pawar was holding discussions on the merger, would he have performed so with out taking BJP into confidence? Second, supposing he was holding such discussions, was he doing it to get out of NDA when he was steady within the govt. Some wish to create confusion after which use one’s ecosystem to amplify confusion…You all know that the connection between Ajitdada and me was such that he shared all the things with me. Even a day earlier than his unlucky loss of life, we each sat collectively chit chatting for an hour...”Rejecting the cost that Sunetra Pawar’s swearing-in ceremony was rushed, Fadanvis identified that when PM Indira Gandhi was assassinated, Congress took a choice to appoint Rajiv Gandhi to the PM’s submit even earlier than her final rites were carried out.Pawar Sr initiates Ajit memorial undertaking A grand memorial for Maharashtra’s late deputy CM Ajit Pawar is being deliberate in his hometown Baramati, together with his uncle Sharad Pawar taking the initiative. The memorial is proposed to be constructed on the campus of Vidya Pratishthan, the place Ajit was cremated on Jan 28. On Sunday, Sharad Pawar, alongside together with his spouse, Pratibha, visited the campus and held a quick dialogue with some trustees of the pratishthan concerning the memorial for his late nephew. Kiran Gujar, a member of Vidya Pratishthan, told TOI: “Pawar Saheb was heading to Mumbai. On the way in which, he and his spouse known as us to the campus the place he mentioned the memorial for Ajit dada. He told us to start out engaged on the plan, which he would talk about with us once more as soon as the mourning interval is over.” Vidya Pratishthan, an academic belief, is managed by Pawars, with Sharad Pawar as president and Ajit among the many trustees.