With elections nearing, Sharad Pawar supporters made a pitch for him as the next prime minister, but the NCP chief shot it down saying he has no numbers.
With elections nearing, Sharad Pawar supporters made a pitch for him as the next prime minister, but the NCP chief shot it down saying he has no numbers.
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Pawar told reporters in Pune that to become prime minister it is necessary to have the required numbers in the house.
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Earlier, addressing a public rally at Shirur, Pawar nevertheless gave an indication of backtracking on his earlier much publicised announcement that he would not be seeking a Lok Sabha seat in the next elections.
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"I am still of the opinion that I should become a Rajya Sabha member being an elder politician.
However, the party workers are insisting that I should enter the Lok Sabha from the reconstituted Shirur constituency, said Pawar, whose daughter Supriya Sule will now be the NCP candidate from his home constituency of neighbouring Baramati.
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Deferring the expected announcement on his candidature from Shirur constituency, Pawar said a final decision would be taken at the party's Western Maharashtra unit on February 6.
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Earlier, Maharashtra Finance Minister Dilip Valse Patil in his speech recalled the names of Chandrashekhar, I K Gujral and H D Deve Gowda who, he said, they became prime ministers without the backing of sufficient number of their respective party MPs. "We want a mature and experienced leader like Pawar to enter Lok Sabha and become PM," Patil asserted.u00a0
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