‘Pawar can be PM if joins NDA’
posted on Dec 12, 2012 @ 4:15PM
‘Please join in NDA so that you can be the Prime Minister of India’, said Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi to Union Agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
What Joshi is saying is that as the NDA is not in a position to find an unanimous choice for the post of the prime minister, Pawar will have a better choice for the post from the alliance. However, it may be recalled that one Sanjay Raut said in 2009 that if there was any leader from Maharashtra who could be the prime minister, it was only Sharad Pawar.
Shiv Sena is a constituent of the NDA which is led by BJP. The Pawar’s NCP is an important constituent of the ruling UPA both at centre and in Maharashtra. Sharad Pawar is the senior minister at centre. Pawar was also a frontrunner for the post of Prime Minister of India once in nineties too. He has good rapport with the leaders of various parties at the moment.
The former speaker of Lok Sabha and the former chief minister of Maharashtra Joshi showered praises on Pawar on the occasion of the birthday of the latter.