Hasten decision-making, Pawar tells Maha govt

He also said the two parties will also fight the elections together

Ineffective execution of welfare schemes and a string of scams led to dismal performance of UPA in Lok Sabha polls, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said today.

He also asked the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra to hasten decision-making ahead of assembly polls due in a few months.

He said public anger against the UPA dispensation also stemmed from a series of corruption cases. Pawar, whose party received severe drubbing in the elections in Maharashtra where it could win only four of the 21 seats it had contested, stressed the need for the Congress-NCP government to pull up its socks and expedite the decision-making process to turn the tide in their favour ahead of the crucial assembly elections later this year when the combine would seek a fourth term in office. "If we expedite important decisions in the next two months, then only the ruling combine will benefit," Pawar, whose party has often been critical of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over alleged slow pace of decision-making, said. Pawar said the two parties will contest the assembly polls together.