Mumbai: Four days after the Nationalist Congress Party split vertically, party President Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit Pawar shall attempt a show of
Mumbai: Four days after the Nationalist Congress Party split vertically, party President Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit Pawar shall attempt a show of their respective strength of the elected MLAs, which could be an indicator of the political weather ahead, here on Wednesday.
While the Ajit Pawar-led NCP is holding its maiden meeting at the MET Auditorium in Bandra, Sharad Pawar’s 25-year-old political vehicle is convening at the Y. C. Chavan Auditorium in Colaba this afternoon, barely a couple of hours apart.
The Ajit Pawar faction has made tall and differing claims of its support — they have given a support figure of 40-plus MLAs. On the other hand, the Sharad Pawar camp has not declared any figures, but the party bigwigs say that most MLAs barring the nine who took oath as Ministers on Sunday, and the rank-and-file are with them.
The scenario this day is akin to what was witnessed in June 2022, when the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray was toppled in a revolt carried out by his trusted man Eknath Shinde who walked off with around 50 Shiv Sena and 10 independent legislators, and later became the CM.
