Kolhapur, May 10 (UNI) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday welcomed the central government's decision to re-examine the Sedition Law, asserting that it totally 'outdated'. Talking to media persons, the veteran politician said that it was proper that the central government was reconsidering the sedition section which was introduced by the British government in 1890.

 He added that the colonial era law has "outdated" now. The Center on Monday informed the Supreme Court and that it wanted to re-look and re-examine the Sedition law. In a statement filed last month before the inquiry panel looking into the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence, the NCP leader had said that the law was being 'misused' to stifle the dissent. He also slammed the central government, saying the central government has been "failed" to check rapidly increasing inflation in the country and "trying to divert the people's attention from inflation to other issues like religion". On local bodies election, he said that it was not possibly to announce elections of local bodies within fifteen days as per directions of Supreme Court as it would take at least three months for the elections of local bodies. On the question of whether the party will contest separately or together, he said we would discuss this issue with our alliance partner, Shiv Sena and Congress party. On Raj Thackeray's Ayodhya visit, he said it is not a national issue.