Tue Jan 14 14:50:16 UTC 2025: ## Pawar Slams Shah, Accuses Home Minister of Breaking Political Decorum

**Mumbai, [Date]** – NCP chief Sharad Pawar has vehemently rejected accusations from Union Home Minister Amit Shah, accusing Shah of failing to uphold the decorum of his office. The dispute stems from Shah’s recent claim that the BJP’s landslide victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections marked the end of the “politics of treachery and betrayal” allegedly started by Pawar in 1978.

Shah, addressing a BJP convention in Shirdi, referenced Pawar’s departure from the Vasantdada Patil government in 1978, taking 40 MLAs with him and subsequently becoming Chief Minister. He declared that the BJP’s victory had buried this “instability” 20 feet underground.

Pawar, responding to these remarks, asserted his own position as Chief Minister in 1978, questioning Shah’s knowledge of events at that time and highlighting the presence of members from the BJP’s predecessor, Jana Sangh, in his cabinet. He further emphasized the previously cordial relationships between political leaders, citing his appointment as vice-chairman of the Disaster Management Authority by then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2001, despite being in the opposition.

Pawar criticized the current lack of “good communication” between political leaders, concluding that Shah’s comments did not reflect the appropriate conduct for a Home Minister.

The BJP’s resounding victory in the November 2023 Maharashtra elections saw them secure 132 seats, while their allies, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s faction of the NCP, won 57 and 41 seats respectively. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, which included Pawar’s NCP, secured only 46 seats.

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