NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) President Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that his former party colleague Dilip Walse Patil betrayed him. Pawar was speaking at a rally in support of NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidate Devdutt Nikam in Ambegaon assembly constituency of the district ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections to be held on November 20.
Rival NCP has fielded seven-time MLA Valse Patil from this seat. Sharad Pawar said, “He kept saying that Saheb (Sharad Pawar) will not talk (anything negative) about me, but what is left for me to say?
Dilip Walse Patil betrayed us, and those who betrayed us need to be punished. You need to ensure that Devdutt Nikam wins this seat with a huge margin.
Following the split in the Nationalist Congress Party last year, Valse Patil joined the Ajit Pawar-led faction and became a minister in the BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP government. Sharad Pawar said, “I do not want anything from those to whom I have given position, power, authority and prestige. Today many people are upset with him. People did not like his decision to join the cabinet. They say that they have very good relations with us, but it is not so.
