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.
Pawar's last rites were carried out with full state honours at the Vidya Pratishthan ground in Baramati on January 29, where his sons lit the funeral pyre and carried out the final rituals.
Arun Dubey, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) worker and a resident of Mirzapur, said he currently lives in Pune and has been associated with the Pawar family for a long time.
Incidentally, Ajit Pawar-led NCP MLA Amol Mitkari was the first to speak about what Gojubavi village sarpanch Kalyan Atole told Sharad Pawar on Wednesday.
Several other Pawar family members were also present at the venue. Sharad Pawar-led NCP MLA Rohit was the first to reach Sunetra Pawar's Sahyog Society residence along with his parents.
Call records reveal Ajit Pawar was speaking to a party worker minutes before the Baramati plane crash, highlighting his final moments and deepening the tragedy.
