Supriya Sule defends Pawar’s decision to attend PM Modi award event

Supriya Sule defends Pawar’s decision to attend PM Modi award event

In the backdrop of PM Modi’s honour with the Lokmanya Tilak award in Pune, NCP leader and Baramati MP Supriya Sule saw nothing wrong in NCP chief Sharad Pawar taking part in the event as in democracy, dialogue is important.

Sule told the media personnel that we are all for dialgoue in a democracy…democracy is supreme,” She made the comment when asked on the call of NCP’s allies and activists, who have urged Pawar not to attend the event.

This year, the Lokmanya Tilak Trust decided to honour PM Modi with the Lokmanya Tilak award named after Bal Gangadhar Tilak when PM Modi will be in Pune to inaugurate a number of development projects. The award was conferred on Tuesday August 1 which also marks the death anniversary of the freedom fighter.

Amid the event, Sule said the event has been organised by the Lokmanya Tilak Trust. The trust is honouring the Prime Minister, not Pawar saheb. If Tilak family thinks it is appropriate to honour the Prime Minister, then she doesn’t see anything wrong in it. Anyways, he is country’s Prime Minister and not BJP Prime Minister.

Maharashtra has always respected the post occuped by an individual.. Balasaheb Thackeray and my father often criticised each other. But Pawar saheb always attended the function organised by Balasaheb. At the event, Prime Minister will be honoured.

On the flip side, Sule asserted that the Prime Minister said so many things about our party, even calling us corrupt…But it was the Prime Minister who presented Pawar saheb the Padmabhushan award.

Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Sushil Kumar Shinde, who also attended the function, refused to comment saying that he is attended the function in his capacity as the trustee..It is not a political function.

News Edit K.V.Raman