Deputy CM not being allowed to speak at PM event insult of Maharashtra: Supriya Sule

Supriya Sule. File Pic

Sharad Pawar's daughter and NCP MP Supriya Sule has said that Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar was not allowed to speak in presence of PM Narendra Modi at a temple inauguration event in Dehu near Pune, and termed it as an insult of the state.

Supriya said that former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis was allowed to speak at the event. "Ajit Pawar's office had requested (the PMO) that he be allowed to speak at the event as he is the Deputy CM and also the guardian minister of the district. The PMO did not approve it," she told reporters in Amravati.

"This is very serious, painful, shocking and not justified. This is an insult to Maharashtra. Whether to allow Fadnavis to speak is their personal matter but Ajit Pawar, being the Deputy CM, should have been allowed to speak at the Dehu event," Supriya said.

On his visit to Maharashtra, Modi inaugurated a shila (rock) temple at the Sant Tukaram Maharaj Mandir dedicated to the 17th-century saint at Dehu near Pune. He also interacted with 'warkaris' during his visit, which comes ahead of the annual 'wari' tradition which will commence on June 20 from Dehu.

PM Modi also inaugurated an underground 'Gallery of Revolutionaries' museum dedicated to the luminaries of the freedom struggle, at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.

The gallery has come up in the subterranean network of 13 pre-World War-I British era bunkers, discovered in the Raj Bhavan campus in August 2016 during the tenure of the then Governor C Vidyasagar Rao. The gallery includes information on the freedom movement heroes, their role in the movement, sculptures, rare photographs, murals and details on tribal revolutionaries drawn by school-kids.

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With inputs from PTI