Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar made sensational comments on former AICC chief Sonia Gandhi. While most of the Congress men and party workers claim Sonia Gandhi never aspired for government posts and in fact she sacrificed PM post in 2004, Sharad Pawar’s statements give a completely different picture.
Sharad Pawar revealed in a recent interview that he quit Congress in 1999 because the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi had staked her claim to the post of Prime Minister after the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government collapsed. He added,only Manmohan Singh or I was the right claimant to that post of Prime Minister at that time. I was at home when I came to know that Sonia had staked claim to form the government. That was the moment I decided to quit Congress. Pawar, however, praised Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his willingness to learn, travel and interact with the people. He also remarked that only Congress could be an alternative to the BJP.
No matter how he putsit, people who followed the politics during that period know, Sharad wanted to become PM of India and started separate party NCP to achieve that post through one coalition government or other. However, his comments on Sonia already gone viral and debated a lot in political circles.
