Mumbai, Feb. 23 -- Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena leader Bhaskar Jadhav today revealed the reason NCP founder Sharad Pawar chose to deliberately downplay the late Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's air crash as "an accident" immediately after the tragic incident, during his condolence address at the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly here.
"Not a single person in Maharashtra is willing to believe that Ajit Pawar's plane crash was a simple accident and everybody strongly suspects that it was not an accident but a deliberate act. Being an experienced political veteran, Sharad Pawar could read the anger among the people in Baramati and he wanted to ensure that their rage would not get transformed into an unstoppable wildfire or inferno. Therefo...