Why Chandrakant Patil challenge Sharad Pawar to go solo in elections?

Pune: To show how much political support his party enjoy, the State BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Monday dared NCP chief Sharad Pawar to go solo in the next state Assembly elections.

Patil statement came after, in an interview to Sena mouthpiece Saamana, Pawar on Monday said that he took steps to ‘widen the distance between BJP and Shiv Sena’.

While responding ti this Chandrakant Patil says that BJP leaders had approached to Pawar and his colleagues for a government in the state last year.

Patil said, ‘If Congress and NCP had contested separately in the 2019 Assembly polls, NCP would have won just 20 seats and Congress 10.’ ‘BJP is the single largest party in Maharashtra. It had won 105 seats. It knows where it stands and what supports it has among the masses.

People voted for BJP as the single largest party in 2019,’ he added. ‘In the next Assembly elections, let all parties – Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena and BJP – contest separately and find out where each stand. The BJP is ready,’ said Patil.