Overview

• Sharad Pawar dismissed Amit Shah's claims that BJP's Maharashtra victory ended 'betrayal politics' allegedly started by Pawar in 1978, calling for decorum in political discourse.
• Pawar highlighted the lack of communication among current political leaders compared to earlier eras, citing examples of collaboration across party lines in the past.
• The NCP (Sharad Pawar) chief reaffirmed that the INDIA alliance was created for national elections and not for state or local-level polls.
• Tensions within the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition grew as Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) announced plans to contest local body elections independently.
• Pawar plans to meet with MVA leaders to discuss the possibility of a united approach to local elections, while maintaining that no MPs from his faction support an alliance with the BJP.