Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Friday that the BJP’s move to form Government in Maharashtra with the support of Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar was a “misadventure”.
He said the BJP might have had a “misplaced faith” on Ajit Pawar for getting the numbers to form Government and “so this has happened”.
“It was a misadventure. Rather I will say a miscalculation,” the BJP leader said at the ‘India Today Conclave East’ here.
In the last week of November, BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the second time with the help of Ajit Pawar, who broke away from the NCP along with some party MLAs.
However, failing to gather the numbers for proving majority, Fadnavis had to resign, even as Ajit Pawar patched up with his uncle and went