Would fight next polls under Maha Vikas Aghadi: Sharad Pawar

Speaking at a press conference in Aurangabad on Sunday, Pawar said it was his personal opinion that the elections must be held under the banner of the MVA, but he would have to consult his party colleagues and later, alliance partners Congress and the Shiv Sena for a collective decision in the matter.

Pawar said the proposal to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad was placed before the cabinet at the last moment and his party was not consulted. This was not the government’s agenda and the CM’s decision was final, he added.

He said he would have been happier if many problems plaguing Aurangabad district had been solved instead.

Taking a dig at Governor BS Koshyari, Pawar claimed that unlike MVA tenure when he sat on the Speaker’s election for over a year, he sanctioned the same in two days after the fall of the Uddhav-led government.