Why did ECI allow distribution of scheme funds during Bihar polls, asks Sharad Pawar

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NCP (SP) main  Sharad Pawar. File

NCP (SP) main Sharad Pawar. File | Photo Credit: PTI

 Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) said the entrepreneurship strategy for women played a relation successful the triumph of the National Democratic Alliance successful the Bihar elections, adjacent arsenic helium wondered however the Election Commission allowed organisation of funds during the canvass process.

A time aft the Bharatiya Janata Party-Janata Dal (United) harvester had a landslide triumph successful the polls, Mr. Pawar said the BJP and JD (U) person Nitish Kumar volition jointly instrumentality a telephone connected the Chief Minister.

"The result of the Bihar polls was not antithetic from what was predicted by Nitish Kumar. Women took the predetermination into their hands. I had earlier felt that a strategy nether which ₹10,000 is deposited successful slope accounts of women had generated a favourable effect (for NDA)", Mr. Pawar told presspersons successful Baramati.

He was referring to the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, a strategy nether which a pistillate subordinate of each household gets wealth for mounting up a business.

He wondered however the canvass assemblage allowed the organisation of wealth nether the strategy during elections.

"The Election Commission should deliberation if the wealth organisation (by the Bihar authorities nether the scheme) was correct", the seasoned person said and raised concerns implicit the imaginable implementation of the Bihar template successful aboriginal elections.

"During the Maharashtra polls too, the magnitude (under Ladki Bahin Scheme) was officially credited to the accounts of women. If ruling parties usage a akin method successful elections, it volition hamper the spot of the radical arsenic good arsenic the predetermination process", helium added.

Alliance with nephew

Mr. Pawar did not springiness a nonstop reply to queries connected imaginable alliances betwixt the NCP (SP) and the NCP led by his estranged nephew and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar for the upcoming elections to section bodies.

"I don't cognize astir talks (on confederation betwixt the 2 factions of NCP) taking spot successful immoderate districts. As per discussions held successful the NCP (SP), section leaders volition instrumentality a telephone (on forging alliance) during the Nagar Panchayat and Panchayat Samiti polls," helium added.

Published - November 15, 2025 11:15 p.m. IST

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