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Maharashtra Minister and BJP person Chandrashekhar Bawankule has said that Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should refrain from criticising the BJP and not unit it to unfastened "pages from the past".
Addressing a property league successful Pune connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026), Mr. Bawankule reminded Mr. Pawar of the communal determination taken successful the coordination committee of Mahayuti earlier the civic polls that adjacent if confederation partners contention the polls separately, they volition not criticise each different during campaigning.
Elections to assorted municipal corporations successful the authorities are scheduled connected January 15.
"I expected that Pawar would abide by that communal understanding. On the different hand, if you see, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (of BJP) is pursuing that regularisation arsenic helium is not criticising Pawar's enactment (NCP) oregon Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena," Mr. Bawankule said.
"I conscionable privation to accidental that determination are pages from the past and nary 1 wants to spell backmost (to them). Ajit dada is 1 of the 3 cardinal leaders successful Mahayuti and I anticipation helium volition not criticise the BJP oregon different confederation partners," helium stated.
Asked astir Mr. Pawar targeting the BJP's enactment successful Pune implicit improvement issues, the Minister said the NCP president is simply a person of precocious stature and helium should not stoop debased to criticise the little enactment of a party.
On Mr. Pawar's remarks that helium is sitting successful the Mahayuti with those who erstwhile levelled allegations against him successful the ₹70,000-crore irrigation scam and connected whether determination were so irregularities, Mr. Bawankule noted the lawsuit astir the alleged scam was inactive pending successful court.
"Once the verdict comes, the information volition travel out," helium added.
The Minister said that arsenic an Opposition enactment then, the BJP had levelled allegations based connected disposable grounds astatine the time.
Asked whether the BJP volition marque the Mundhwa onshore woody of Pune an predetermination issue, helium said the government-appointed enquiry committee is successful the last stages of preparing its study and it would not beryllium due to dainty it arsenic a canvass matter.
