A day after his meeting with Sharad Pawar, it has emerged, that Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari told the NCP boss to take control of the medical crisis in the state. Sources said Koshyari told Pawar, "I have been hearing that you [Pawar] hold a remote control to the Uddhav Thackeray government. Now, it is time you took things in your hands to manage the COVID-19 pandemic that is getting out of control."

A person privy to Koshyari's post-meeting talk, told mid-day on Tuesday that the governor expressed his unhappiness over the handling of the pandemic, and explained to the Nationalist Congress Party NCP) chief, that he was in no way creating trouble for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.