MUMBAI: On Wednesday, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said those who murdered democracy after the 2019 state assembly elections have now realised the real power of democracy.His remark came a day after the Election Commission of India (ECI) recognised the faction led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and also allotted the party’s poll symbol ‘wall clock’ to his group.The decision came as a setback to party founder Sharad Pawar.”The Election Commission’s decision is a victory of democracy and majority, especially given what happened after the 2019 assembly elections in Maharashtra. People’s mandate was rejected and democracy was murdered at that time,” Fadnavis said.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the undivided Shiv Sena had contested the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections together.But after the results, the Sena snapped ties with the BJP and joined hands with the NCP and the Congress to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government headed by Uddhav Thackeray.
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