Team News Riveting
Mumbai, July 14
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief, Sharad Pawar on Wednesday put to rest all speculations and denied any move to contest Presidential elections in 2024 as opposition candidate.
The NCP leader called the reports false and said that the party having 300 parliamentarians would have the upper hand. Veteran political leader Sharad Pawar categorically rebuffed the speculation triggered by election analyst Prashant Kishor’s meeting with the Gandhis yesterday. Sources had said that the meet was not about was not about state polls as was speculated, but about “something bigger”. Today sources indicated that the discussion could have been about a formal role in the party for Kishor.
The Nationalist Congress Party Chief had also met Kishor twice earlier but refuted having any political discussion. “Prashant Kishor told me that he has now left the business of making election strategy,” he told reporters in an off-camera interview this evening. “Prashant Kishor met me twice but whatever happened was about his company. There was no discussion about the leadership of the 2024 election or the Presidential elections,” Pawar added.
“It is wrong to say that I am a candidate for the Presidential election,” Pawar said. Referring to the BJP, he said “When a single party has more than 300 MPs, what will be the result of the election, I know. I will not be a presidential candidate”.
