Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of destabilising duly elected governments in opposition-helmed states and said the policy of current rulers is to widen the wedge in society using caste, religion, and language as tools. Addressing a rally in Beed, the home district of rebel NCP leader and cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde, in central Maharashtra, Pawar also slammed the Centre over the ethnic violence in Manipur.He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have gone to Manipur and understood the pain of people in the north-eastern state which has witnessed deadly ethnic clashes since early May.

