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.
The Deputy CM also said that his son has not been named in any First Information Report (FIR) so far, “because only those who signed the registration documents were booked”.
Pawar's instruction will automatically mean that alliances can be struck even with the NCP, which is led by his nephew and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, sources said on Thursday.
MNS founder Raj Thackeray, who travelled by local train from Dadar to Churchgate, was the first politician to speak from a temporary podium constructed near the BMC headquarters.
The protest rally called ‘Satyacha Morcha’ (Rally for Truth), will highlight the alleged inclusion of nearly 96 lakh fake voters across Maharashtra State Election Commission.
Former Maharashtra Home Minister and Sharad Pawar-led NCP leader Anil Deshmukh stated at a press conference on Wednesday that he plans to produce a Regional Forensic Science Laboratory report shortly and use it to challenge the closure of a police case that investigated an attack against him in 2024, just before the Maharashtra state assembly elections, which were held last year.
