Kalmadi said this in Star TV's Janata Ki Adalat programme. He said, "He (Pawar) is not Prime Minister material, and he is selfish. He will never be Prime Minister and his life's ambition to make his nephew Chief Minister will also never be realised."

Accusing Pawar of indulging in nepotism, Kalmadi was quoted in a press release issued by the TV channel as saying, "My fight against him continues. Sharad Pawar says he wants young blood to come forward, but he never does so...''

The only person he brought forward was his nephew....I will never align with him. I can never be in politics with him".

Kalmadi described Pawar's NCP as a non-starter. "When we were with him, we had 50 to 100 MPs. Now see, they have only three and even after a month (oflaunching the new party), the number remains at three," he said.

Participating in the programme, Renuka Choudhary, who quit Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to join Congress, said she left TDP not because she was not given any party post but because the party no longer worked for the poor.Another participant, Devendra Dwivedi, who left Congress and joined the NCP, denied that former prime ministers Chandra Shekhar and P V Narasimha Rao were responsible for his decision.