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Indian Politics is incomplete minus-Sharad Pawar
Given the manner in which Indian polity veers towards becoming dark and unipolar, it is largely Pawar who is credited with maintaining a balance
Friday December 11, 2020 4:44 PM, Quaid Najmi, IANS
Mumbai: It was a cool early morning on September 30, 1993, when the Latur earthquake rudely jolted a sleeping Maharashtra at 3.56 a.m.
The same evening, this correspondent (then with The Indian Express, Mumbai) was bundled by his Chief Reporter D. K. Raikar, onto an East West Airlines cargo flight to Solapur, making him among the earliest ‘outsider to reach the ravaged region.
Late that night he learnt that in the next circuit house bungalow, none other than the then Chief Minister Sharad Pawar had arrived, and later deploying some goodwill, this reporter managed to get his vehicle tagged in the CM s motorcade at dawn the next day.