Addressing a Congress workers' meeting at Shrirampur here recently, Adik said that he himself was a witness to Pawar inciting Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav to prevent Congress president Sonia Gandhi from becoming the prime minister. Adik said that on several occasions, Pawar had urged Sonia Gandhi to accept the post of Congress president and added that Pawar himself had moved a resolution, proposing Sonia's name for the Congress presidentship. When the BJP Government was defeated in Lok Sabha, the president asked the Congress to form the next government and at that time, the first signature on the memorandum prepared by the party was of Pawar's, Adik said.

Adik said Pawar was given the post of the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha although he commanded support of only 11 MPs. The then prime minister P V Narsimha Rao too had made Pawar the defence minister, Adik said and added that the same Pawar was now criticising Sonia Gandhi for her foreign origin. Adik wondered whether in the past Pawar had not realised the foreign background of Gandhi. The people have already understood the double standards of Pawar, he added.