The Bhartiya Janata Party was keen on a post-poll alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in 2019, but its party president Sharad Pawar made it clear to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that there can be no truck with the saffron party.

In his revised autobiography 'Lok Majhe Sangati', which focuses on events post-2015, released on Wednesday, Pawar also admitted that there were informal talks between some NCP and BJP leaders after the 2019 assembly polls in Maharashtra when there was uncertainty over government formation.