Uddhav Thackeray lacks political acumen, says Sharad Pawar in autobiography

Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar has written in his autobiography that the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra collapsed because Uddhav Thackeray lacked political acumen and failed to address the discontent within his party, reported PTI.

On Tuesday, the Nationalist Congress Party leader launched the second edition of his autobiography Lok Maze Sangati. At the event, Pawar also announced that he will resign as the president of the party.

After the 2019 state Assembly polls in Maharashtra, the Nationalist Congress Party had formed the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government along with the Congress and the Shiv Sena. Thackeray became the chief minister. However, in June, the alliance fell through as a group of Shiv Sena MLAs led by Eknath Shinde, rebelled against the party and formed a new government with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

In his autobiography, Pawar wrote that the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition had anticipated desperate attempts to break the alliance. “The formation of the Maha Vikas Aghadi was not just a power game but strong opposition to BJP’s tendency to finish off the importance of other political parties by any means,” Pawar wrote in the book, according to PTI.

He lamented that Thackeray could not prevent the split within the Shiv Sena.

“It happened due to lack of experience,”...

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