The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was in touch with the BJP alongside its talks with the Shiv Sena and Congress during the Maharashtra political standoff, Sharad Pawar revealed in an exclusive interview to NDTV on Tuesday. The NCP chief admitted that he was aware that his nephew Ajit Pawar was in conversation with the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis but says he never believed he would go as far as he did.