A secret informal meeting held recently by Sharad Pawar-led NCP leaders with other political figures at a Pune hotel revived the possibility of a merger between the two NCP factions: the Sharad Pawar-led NCP and the Sunetra Ajit Pawar-led NCP. This followed the leak of a photograph from the meeting to social media on Thursday.
Fresh tension surfaced within Maharashtra’s NCP after organisational changes and Sunil Tatkare’s meeting with Sharad Pawar triggered speculation over possible defections.
Sharad Pawar-led NCP's National Working President and Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule criticized the Fadnavis government for failing to register an FIR and investigate the Ajit Pawar air crash.
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.
Founder president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar was admitted to the Breach Candy Hospital in South Mumbai, where he underwent medical tests as a precautionary measure.
Speaking to media persons at a press conference here on Saturday, Raut said, “I believe Sharad Pawar will come to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) along with Ajit Pawar”.
Ajit Pawar and his cousin Supriya Sule, who is the working president of Sharad Pawar group, will appear together for the first time on Saturday to unveil a joint manifesto of both the NCPs for the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections.
Reacting to the development on Monday, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) chief Prakash Ambedkar stated that "Uncle (Sharad Pawar) and nephew (Deputy CM Ajit Pawar) have come together, which means they (both the NCPs) have merged
The recent 'no vote no funds' statement Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar made during his campaign for local civic body elections came in for sharp criticism from his uncle and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar on Thursday.
A delegation of the Mumbai Congress led by president Varsha Gaikwad, included Congress MLAs like Amin Patel, Aslam Sheikh and Jyoti Gaikwad reached Pawar's residence, in the presence of Sharad Pawar's daughter and NCP's Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule.
