The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Tuesday said NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who shared the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Lokmanya Tilak National Award ceremony in Pune, could have turned his back on the event to clear doubts about him among those who have taken a dim view of it.

An editorial in the Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana' claimed PM Modi accused the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) of corruption and then engineered a split in the party and muddied the politics in Maharashtra, PTI reported.