The anti-merger Sunil Tatkare-Praful Patel faction within the Sunetra Ajit Pawar-led NCP is likely to join the BJP even as the Deputy CM is preparing to call a core committee meeting to discuss differences within the party, sources said here on Monday.
Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar has written a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis demanding that corporators of the Ajit Pawar-founded NCP must get an equal amount of development funds for their wards, as much as BJP corporators receive.
Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar's younger son, Jai Pawar, ruled out any move to follow his elder brother Parth Pawar to the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, but stated that his mom would aim to become Maharashtra Chief Minister in 2029.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar-led NCP National President Sunetra Pawar resigned her Rajya Sabha membership on Wednesday.
Overall, Sunetra Pawar bagged 2,18,969 votes and secured a record-breaking victory by a margin of over 2,18,000 votes - the highest ever in Assembly elections.
The Baramati Assembly constituency, which fell vacant following the death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in an air crash, is currently undergoing its high-stakes bye-election counting process.
Sunetra Pawar enters electoral politics amid a legacy battle in Baramati, with voting underway and the bypoll shaped by Ajit Pawar’s sudden death earlier this year.
Parth said that being a Rajya Sabha MP was a deeply emotional and proud moment of his life and dedicated the milestone to his father, who died in a plane crash in January this year.
Rupali Chakankar, a leader of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, resigned as Chairperson of the Maharashtra State Women’s Commission late Friday night after controversy erupted over her alleged links with arrested godman Ashok Kharat.
Ajit Pawar-led NCP MLA Amol Mitkari on Friday said that it must be investigated whether arrested godman “Captain” Ashok Kharat or his associates allegedly performed black magic or Aghori rituals targeting late Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
