Pune: NCP (SCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said the MVA 's focus on the coming assembly elections should be to ensure a change in govt and not on its chief minister's face. Pawar's comment comes amid Shiv Sena (UBT)'s insistence that the MVA partners should declare the alliance's CM face ahead of the assembly polls . The NCP (SCP) chief's stand that the MVA should go to the polls without any particular face as its CM candidate is on the lines of the Congress's strategy.
"There is no need to pay much attention to the issue. People of the state are looking for an alternative. Our (MVA's) focus should be to provide that alternative," Pawar said while interacting with the media in the city.
"Nobody in our party is interested in being projected as the chief minister face of the alliance. Our focus is to bring a change in the govt and ensure better governance," he said The seat-sharing formula among the MVA members for the assembly polls is yet to be finalised. "A meeting of MVA partners for the seat-sharing formula was called on Aug 20.
However, the focus of the meeting shifted because of the Badlapur incident. The MVA's meeting on seat sharing will be held on Aug 27," Pawar said. Asked if former BJP member Samarjeetsinh Ghatge will join NCP (SCP), Pawar refused to divulge details and said, "I will hold a public rally in Kagal on Sept 3.
" On the Centre's decision to provide him Z-plus security cover, he said, "When I enquired with some officials in New Delhi, I was told that the.