NCP’s Half-hearted Greenathon

On Sharad Pawar’s birthday last December, the NCP launched a year-long drive to create awareness on global warming. But at a recent party meeting on the environment issue, its senior cadre drove up in gas-guzzling SUVs.

On Sharad Pawar’s birthday last December, the NCP launched a year-long drive to create awareness on global warming. But at a recent party meeting on the environment issue, its senior cadre drove up in gas-guzzling SUVs. Pawar himself owns an Audi Q7; his nephew and irrigation minister Ajit Pawar has a Land Cruiser, Lexus and Skoda; MP Sameer Bhujbal has a Toyota Fortuner; Maharashtra state finance minister Sunil Tatkare has a Volkswagen Turak; environment minister Ganesh Naik has an Audi Q7, BMW X5 and Volvo S80. Green, anyone?

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