New Delhi: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut vented out his ire over Sharad Pawar presenting the Mahadji Shinde National Gaurav Award to Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at an event in Delhi on Tuesday.
"Pawar Saheb, we also know politics," Raut told reporters in Delhi. "Sharad Pawar did not felicitate Shinde but Amit Shah, who divided Maharashtra. Giving such an honour to traitors is a blow to the identity of Maharashtra. Pawar should not have gone to Shinde's program. The politics of the state is going in a strange direction. Shiv Sena developed Thane. Pawar has the wrong information about Thane. We have expressed our party's feelings about Pawar. There is no literary convention in Delhi but political brokerage. Now international brokers like Shinde are with Pawar Saheb," he added.
After awarding Shinde, Pawar, who attended the event on behalf of Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA), said, "Eknath Shinde is a leader who is aware of the civic issues of recent times. He worked to give the right direction as the head of the Thane and Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporations as well as the Chief Minister. He solved the problems of the state and the people by maintaining harmonious communication with leaders of all parties without limiting his thinking to his own party. His works will be recorded in the history of Maharashtra."
Shinde also showered praises on Pawar after he was honoured with the Mahadji Shinde Rashtra Gaurav Puraskar in the presence of Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on the occasion of the 98th Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan scheduled to be held here on February 21-23.