On Wednesday ahead of the Mumbai Cricket Association’s Election; Sharad Pawar, Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis together shared a platform. 

At a special dinner held on Wednesday ahead of the Mumbai Cricket Association’s (MCA) election, Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar shared a platform.

Apart from the three renowned political faces, BJP’s Ashish Shelar, who was elected as the BCCI treasurer on Tuesday, was also present at the event. Interestingly, Pawar is rooting for the BJP leader in the election for the post of MCA’s president.

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Other contestants

A panel formed by Pawar and Shelar also witnessed Milind Narvekar, the close aide of Uddhav Thackeray, and NCP leader Jitendra Awhad, filing nominations for the election. At the event, the Sharad Pawar- Ashish Shelar panel held a meeting with the chief minister and the deputy chief minister. Not to forget, former Indian cricketer Sandeep Madhusudan Patil is also fighting the election for the president’s post. For India, Patil played 29 international test matches and 45 one-day international games.

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Sharad and Shinde’s words

Shinde said, “Pawar, Fadnavis and Shelar are on the same dais...It may give some people sleepless nights. But this is not the place to indulge in politics. All of us are fans and supporters of sports; hence we have come together for its development irrespective of our political differences.”

Pawar said that even though their political ideologies and obeisance are different, they share the same thoughts about cricket. “When I was the BCCI president, Narendra Modi used to come for meetings when he was the president of the Gujarat Cricket Association, and current Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur and Rajeev Shukla (current BCCI vice president) used to come from Himachal. They came because we have the same passion for sports,” he concluded.