Maharastra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar resigns
MUMBAI, Sep 25(Agencies) : Throwing a bombshell, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar quit his post on Tuesday.
Pawar’s resignation comes at a time when allegations of reports his “hurriedly” granting project approvals totaling Rs 20,000 crore during an eight-month period without the mandatory clearance of the governing council of Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) in 2009 surfaced in sections of the media.
Reports alleged that Pawar had cleared more than 30 projects in the Vidarbha region at exorbitant rates between 2006 and 2009, at a time when held the State Water Resources portfolio.
“The responsibility for this decision is mine alone and no one is to blame for it. I have abdicated my ministerial posts and would henceforth continue as a legislator. I have sounded my seniors’ out on this matter [of his resignation]”, said Pawar, addressing a stunned gathering of reporters at the Mantralaya.
Reiterating that there was no blemish in expediting the irrigation projects, Pawar defended the move by stating that cost overruns in projects pending for the last 20 years occurred due to the increase in the costs of raw materials in that period.
Many a times projects had to be prioritized in order to do justice to the drought-afflicted areas, leading to a backlog in the completion of many projects, Pawar clarified.
Only the topmost leaders of the NCP knew about this decision, Pawar stated, adding that he had dispatched his resignation to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
Denying that he was pressurised in giving up his post, Pawar remarked: “Even when people are doing good work, there are efforts to create an atmosphere of suspicion and doubt…If I continued amidst these allegation, then the people of Maharashtra would have accused of clinging on to my post.”
On the question as to why other senior NCP leaders like PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal and present Water Resources Minister Sunil Tatkare have not thrown in their towels, Mr. Pawar merely said: “Each one has a different way of dealing with a particular situation.”
Pawar also backed the expediting of the much-awaited and controversial ‘White Paper’ on Irrigation, stating that he would want the White Paper to be issued as fast as possible so as to end any doubts prevailing in people’s minds.
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