The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will not face a Madhya Pradesh-like political crisis, said Sharad Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) boss and one of the architects of the MVA. He said this after filing his Rajya Sabha nomination on Wednesday.

"Let people say it. But what I know is that the government will run five years," he said. He said he would not blame the Congress for Jyotiraditya Scindia's exit. Pawar was responding to questions over the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) preparation for launching 'operation lotus' in Maharashtra after a reasonable success in Madhya Pradesh.