Pune:
NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule on Wednesday said if a member of an extended family takes a different stand, it does not mean there is division within the family.
She also noted that BJP leaders these days are not talking about alleged corruption of her party.
Ms Sule, however, did not mention Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who parted ways with his uncle and Ms Sule's father Sharad Pawar last year to join the Shiv Sena-BJP government.
“Our family has about 120 to 125 members, including small children, and in such a large family, just because one person expresses a different opinion does not mean there is a rift,” Ms Sule told reporters in Pune.
“Our family is united and will remain united forever,” she said.
Asked about Union Minister Amit Shah's statement that Sharad Pawar wanted to become her chief minister, Ms Sule said she was grateful to Shah for “liberating the NCP from corruption”. “Every time he came to Maharashtra, he used to call the NCP a 'naturally corrupt party', but now no big leaders of the BJP are talking about corruption. Whatever allegations he had made, no one is talking about it and that is why, I am very grateful to BJP and Shah,” she added.
“There is dynasty politics in his own party,” the Baramati MP alleged.
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