Sharad Pawar not to contest LS election
6 Aug 2013 4:32 AM IST
Veteran politician and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said he is not in the prime ministerial race and will not contest the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
‘I am not going to contest Lok Sabha election. That decision I have taken,’ Pawar told an english news channel when asked if he was hoping to be the prime ministerial candidate.
‘I suppose, I go to Rajya Sabha, that is possible. I may not contest a direct election because I contested 14 elections – this is my 46th year in parliamentary and state legislature without single day’s gap,’ he said. ‘So enough. That is why I (have) decided not to contest. But I might come in Rajya Sabha. Nothing wrong with that,’ the NCP cheif said. He explained why he was not in the race to be a Prime Minister.
‘There might be good friends in every cross-section of society but unless and until some respectable number is there, one should not expect,’ Pawar said.
‘I am not going to contest Lok Sabha election. That decision I have taken,’ Pawar told an english news channel when asked if he was hoping to be the prime ministerial candidate.
‘I suppose, I go to Rajya Sabha, that is possible. I may not contest a direct election because I contested 14 elections – this is my 46th year in parliamentary and state legislature without single day’s gap,’ he said. ‘So enough. That is why I (have) decided not to contest. But I might come in Rajya Sabha. Nothing wrong with that,’ the NCP cheif said. He explained why he was not in the race to be a Prime Minister.
‘There might be good friends in every cross-section of society but unless and until some respectable number is there, one should not expect,’ Pawar said.
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