Party spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said Pawar will be welcomed in Thane, Bhiwandi, Padgha, Shahapur, Igatpuri and many other places by workers on his way to Yeola. (PTI photo)
Maharashtra Political Crisis Live Updates (July 8): Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar will launch his own state tour on Saturday holding a rally in Yeola in Nasik district, the constituency of rebel party leader and minister Chhagan Bhujbal. “He said he will meet people and rebuild everything. People are behind this warrior and you will all see the grand reception he will get,” NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad said. The rally comes amid a power struggle with his nephew Ajit Pawar, who made the Deputy CM of the Shiva Shena-BJP government.
Ruling out that there has been a split in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Praful Patel, with Maharashtra MP Ajit Pawar by his side, said more than 40 MLAs support them and hence have sought the name and the NCP symbol in the elections. commission “NCP held a meeting on June 30 in the presence of many MLAs and MLCs in Devgiri. In that meeting, Ajit Pawar was elected as its leader. Then it appointed Praful Patel as the national working president. This is not a division . Legislature and organizations support Ajit Pawar with majority,” he said.
Meanwhile, politics in Maharashtra has been a rapidly developing landscape for the past few weeks and it continued on Friday with Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena Legislative Council (UBT) member Neelam Gorhe. joining Eknath Shinde’s faction. Gorhe is the third Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC to switch sides. This came on a day when Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said 17-18 MLAs from the Eknath Shinde faction were in touch with them.
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Maharashtra Political Crisis News Live: “We have a much larger number than two-thirds, but there is no need to talk about it as it is not a division or merger,” says Praful Patel. Follow this space for latest updates from Mumbai and Maharashtra.
The upheaval in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) that exposed the sharp differences between the party’s national president Sharad Pawar and his nephew and party leader Ajit Pawar has come as a severe setback for Supriya Sule, the daughter of Pawar and three-time MP from her home territory, Baramati. . Both Ajit and Sule have avoided making comments against each other since the split from the NCP. Sule said, “It is unfortunate. But our relationship will remain unchanged as he (Ajit) is my elder brother.” Ajit has also refrained from making any personal comments against Pawar or Sule, maintaining that “most of the party MLAs wanted to be part of the development policy pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi”. For his part, 82-year-old Pawar has decided to step up his efforts to “rebuild” the party as he embarks on a statewide outreach tour.
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First published on: 07-07-2023 at 09:03 IST
