Sharad Pawar heads the government of Maharashtra, Chandrakant Patil said.
Pune:
NCP chairman Sharad Pawar heads the government of Maharashtra, BJP chief Chandrakant Patil said on Thursday.
If a problem is to be resolved, meet Mr. Pawar and not Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Patil said, speaking to reporters in Sangli.
Mr. Thackeray heads a coalition government of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress.
Mr. Patil was invited to respond to Gov. Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s advice to MNS chief Raj Thackeray to meet Mr. Pawar.
The MNS chief met with the governor earlier today on the issue of consumers getting inflated electricity bills.
“I don’t know what the governor said, but if you ask me, I would say it’s Sharad Pawar who runs the state … What’s the point of meeting Uddhav-ji?” Said Mr. Patil.
“If there is a problem to be solved, you have to meet Pawar because Uddhav-ji does not travel outside,” he joked.
“Pawar and (BJP chief) Devendra Fadnavis are readily available, so people are thinking of the need to meet with the chief minister,” he added.
Mr Patil also claimed that in the past nine months he had not received a single response to his letters to the chief minister’s office.
