Pune:
Nationalist Congress Party working president and Baramati Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule on Thursday said she had two choices in front of her – power and struggle – and she chose the latter.
“I had two options: power or struggle. On the side of the struggle was my father and on the side of power was (Home Minister and senior BJP leader) Amit Shah. I had to choose between power and struggle. I chose struggle,” she said at a public meeting in Indapur.
“Don't forget the person who gave birth to you. Someone has to tell the truth. If we all get scared, there will be no democracy in the country. Today we have been sabotaged. Tomorrow you will meet the same fate,” she says. said in an apparent reference to the split in the NCP on July 2 this year.
Ajit Pawar and eight MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde government, while Ms Sule and several others chose to stay with party founder Sharad Pawar.
Ms Sule said she had informed her family that she would be staying in Baramati for the next 10 months and would not come to Mumbai.
The Lok Sabha elections will be held in the first half of 2024, while the Assembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in the latter part.
“I told my husband and children that I would stay in Baramati until October. I told them that I would not come to Mumbai and asked them to arrange it themselves,” she said.
“The upcoming elections will be crucial for the country and therefore the coming months will be crucial for all of us to decide the fate of the next five years,” she asserted.
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