Veteran politician Sharad Pawar on Saturday in a veiled jibe at Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, said that efforts were being made to divert people\u2019s attention from real issues by engaging them in \u201ctemple politics\u201d and dividing the masses on the basis of religion and caste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing the foundation day of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha in Maharashtra\u2019s Nashik, the Nationalist Congress Party chief claimed that the BJP-ruled Centre\u2019s current economic policy was responsible for the plight of Marathi-speaking textile mill workers in Mumbai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pawar said that rulers are not interested in resolving people\u2019s problems but instead attempts are being made to divide the masses along caste and religious lines and divert their attention with \u201ctemple politics\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The senior leader claimed that government was trying to weaken labour unions and make them dependent on the rulers as he urged workers across the country to unite for securing their future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharad Pawar, who was the chief guest on the occasion of the platinum jubilee of Hind Mazdoor Sabha\u2019s foundation day, also took a veiled dig at Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde\u2019s Ayodhya visit, saying that attempts were being made to divert people\u2019s attention from real issues by engaging them in temple politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pawar rued that Mumbai, which was once considered India\u2019s industrial capital, does not have that distinction anymore as there are no more workers to run the industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, Sharad Pawar, in complete contrast to his allies\u2019 stand, backed embattled industrialist Gautam Adani saying that the damning report published by US-based short seller Hindenburg Research against the Adani Group \u201cseems targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview, Pawar said that the Adani issue was blown out of proportion in the Parliament which led to a complete washout of the second leg of the Budget Session as hardly any business was conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The senior leader said that whenever such an issue is given too much importance, the cost is borne by the country\u2019s economy and as such it seems the report against the Adani Group was \u201ctargeted\u201d, adding that it seems that a single individual business group of a country was targeted to further an agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In complete contrast to his other Opposition allies, including the Congress, who have been adamantly demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani issue, the veteran politician in an interview with NDTV said that he does not agree with other allies on this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Veteran politician Sharad Pawar on Saturday in a veiled jibe at Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, said that efforts were being made to divert people\u2019s attention from real issues by engaging them in \u201ctemple politics\u201d and dividing the masses on the basis of religion and caste. Addressing the foundation day of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":463707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Attempts being made to divert people's attention with temple politics: Sharad Pawar\n\n#sharadpawar\n#ncp\n#maharashtra","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[5455],"yst_prominent_words":[7486,7481,12112,65774,34323,14325,15707,39464],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/04\/09115339\/sharad-pawar-ncp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463649"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=463649"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=463649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}