Mumbai, June 11 -- Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party chief spokesperson Navnath Ban today criticized Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut for recommending NCP founder Sharad Pawar's name to lead the opposition claiming that Raut, who until now had claimed that Uddhav Thackeray should lead the Maha Vikas Aghadi and that he was an international-level leader, has now lost faith in Thackeray himself.
Addressing a press conference held at the BJP state office here, he said that by sidelining Uddhav Thackeray's name and suggesting that Sharad Pawar should lead the opposition at this stage of his life, Raut has indirectly accepted that Uddhav Thackeray's leadership is weak and that it no longer carries any importance within the INDIA alliance, he ...