Nagpur: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Monday claimed that there will be mid-term polls and the Eknath Shinde-led newly formed government will fall within six months.
The statement was made by the NCP stalwart while addressing the NCP legislators and leaders of other parties in Mumbai. “The newly-formed government in Maharashtra may fall in the next six months, hence all should be ready for mid-term polls,” Pawar asserted.
He also claimed that many of the rebel Sena MLAs, now in the Shinde camp, are not happy with the current arrangement. “Once the ministerial portfolios are distributed, their unrest will come out, which will ultimately result in the collapse of the current government,” he added.
Pawar predicts that the failure of this experiment will lead to several rebel leaders returning to their original party. He then directed the NCP legislators to spend more time in their respective assembly constituencies as they have only six months in hand.
Former Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde sworn-in as the chief minister of Maharashtra on June 30. BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis sworn-in as the deputy chief minister of the state.
