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Raising concerns astir the caller reports alluding to money organisation by the ruling confederation leaders during elections, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) SP president Sharad Pawar connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) said that votes are being sought not connected the ground of the enactment done successful the constituencies, but connected the ground of funds.
“The contention among the 3 confederation partners (of Mahayuti consisting of the BJP, the NCP, the Shiv Sena) is to administer money. ‘I volition springiness money. I volition springiness funds.’ This is not good. If the position is to bring successful fiscal aspects to triumph elections, it is amended to not comment,” helium said successful a little speech with journalists astatine Baramati.
Maharashtra civic assemblage elections connected December 2, results connected December 3
He said that groups were formed successful each enactment astatine assorted places for the section assemblage elections. “A radical of 1 enactment is seen holding hands of different party. It is wide that determination is nary unison successful these elections. People volition instrumentality a telephone connected these elections. Before this, radical similar america had ne'er done thing similar this, and we won’t adjacent bash it. Only 4 days are near for voting now. Let’s spot what happens,” helium said.
The comments came against the inheritance of caller statements made by ruling confederation leaders astir organisation of funds. A fewer days ago, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar had said during a campaigning speech, “If you elite each the 18 candidates, I volition springiness you what I person committed. But if you chopped connected something, adjacent I volition enactment a cut. You person your ballot successful your hands, I person funds successful my hands.” He had aboriginal defended his comments saying, “Where did I threaten? You saw successful Bihar too. Tejaswi said successful Bihar that each household volition get a job. Everyone has the close to accidental what they privation to say. It is the voters who instrumentality a telephone connected who to ballot for. The voters are smart. They volition decide.”
Recently, different Shiv Sena person and Maharashtra Minister Gulabrao Patil said during a rally, “Goddess Lakshmi is going to travel to your location connected December 1. Sleep extracurricular your location and beryllium up erstwhile Goddess Lakshmi comes. All the parties person begun now. I privation to archer you, devour the mutton fixed by them, but ballot for us.” The Shiv Sena UBT has asked wherefore the Election Commission has failed to instrumentality enactment of specified statements and enactment against it.
When asked astir the comments made by Sharad Pawar, NCP person Sunil Tatkare told The Hindu, “Pawar saaheb is simply a elder person with implicit six decades of experience. I can’t accidental thing astir him. But I tin archer you that each the 3 confederation partners of Mahayuti person worked for the improvement of Maharashtra. There tin beryllium immoderate differences for section assemblage elections. But they are determination successful the Maha Vikas Aghadi arsenic well. As a government, arsenic a party, we are asking radical for votes connected the ground of the improvement enactment we person done for the State.”
