We don't wrestle with kids: Pawar on CM's barb about weak oppn

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday hit back at Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over his jibe that 'there is no wrestler to fight with' in the Maharashtra Assembly polls, saying one doesn't fight with "kids".

The NCP patriarch was speaking at a campaign rally at Ambejogai in Beed district.

"The chief minister says their wrestler is in the poll battle but there is no wrestler from the opposition in sight.

"There is this organisation called Maharashtra State Wrestling Association, and its president's name is Sharad Pawar," the former Union minister said.

"I stand behind all the wrestlers, and he is telling us about wrestlers. We don't fight with kids," Pawar, 78, said.

If there was no contest, why Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are holding rallies in the state, he asked.

He himself was not contesting, but leaders of the ruling BJP and Shiv Sena can not make a single speech without mentioning him, ..