NCP hints at rethinking alliance with UPA in 2014 Lok Sabha elections

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President and Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar raising allegations on the irked move by the Congress in just concluded Gujarat assembly elections, hinted at rethinking on its alliance with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and assembly polls.

 According to Sharad Pawar though his party was allotted nine seats, the Congress fielded its candidates in five of them and in the remaining, its rebels contested. Addressing party workers in Kochi, Pawar said that NCP would support any new legislation which recommends harsher punishment for those convicted for atrocities against women.

Further, Pawar added that steps were also taken to ensure that farm lands were not being diverted for non-agricultural purposes, adding, a bill to amend the Land Acquisition Act would be tabled in the next session of Parliament.