Hitting out at Sharad Pawar and terming the NCP feud as ‘nautanki’, VBA chief Prakash Ambedkar, another ally within MVA, argued that it was all a fixed match and this decision indicates that.
A statement issued by Brijmohan Srivastava of the Nagaland unit of NCP read, "Nationalist Congress Party Nagaland has decided that all MLAs and office bearers here will support the party's national president Ajit Pawar."