Senior NCP leader Jitendra Awhad took aSharad Pawar jibe at the BJP’s favourite slogan of ‘Congress Mukt Bharat’, saying the party was instead aiming at a “Congress yukt BJP” by poaching and giving tickets to more than a dozen leaders who were formerly Congress members.
Awhad was addressing the media at a joint press conference by the local Congress and the NCP units in Mira Road to announce the candidature of Anand Paranjpe (NCP) for the Thane parliamentary constituency.  Awhad said there was no question of allying with the BJP, as our leader Sharad Pawar himself is the driving force in uniting the Opposition ahead of the 2019 general election.
“They have a habit of raising questions about the progress of our country under the Congress regime, but the BJP has no answers why people voted it to power all these years. The contributions of the Congress can never be ignored,” said ex-Cong­ress legislator Muzaffar Huss­ain.