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NILESH LANKE won twice. The first time was on June 4, when the NCP (SP) leader defeated his heavyweight BJP rival, Sujay Vikhe-Patil, from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. The second time was Tuesday, when the first-timer MP stepped up to take the oath in Parliament and began with the words, “I, Nilesh Dyandev Lanke…”.
Maharashtra civil supplies minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal is known in state political circles as a firebrand who often speaks his mind. Bhujbal seems to be again keeping his party and the Mahayuti coalition guessing, this time over the Maratha quota issue as well as the Rajya Sabha nomination for party chief Ajit Pawar’s wife Suntera.
The impending entry of Sunetra Pawar into the Rajya Sabha has added yet another Pawar name to the pantheon of dynastic politicians from Maharashtra. With family patriarch Sharad Pawar already a Rajya Sabha member, his daughter Supriya Sule in the Lok Sabha, and his nephew Ajit and grandnephew Rohit in the Maharashtra Assembly, Sunetra is set to become the fifth Pawar to hold public office.
At the review meeting held by NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Thursday to discuss the party’s Lok Sabha poll performance, winning just one seat, five of his 41 MLAs were absent. Narhari Zirwal is said to be abroad, and four reported to be unwell. Ajit, on his part, skipped the meeting in Delhi on Wednesday of NDA partners, where they affirmed faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.
Left with a handful of leaders and legislators, his nephew usurping his party name and symbol, veteran politician Sharad Pawar was down last year. Eleven months later, the 83-year-old has bounced back. With his party, NCP (SP) — Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) — leading in eight of the 10 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra, Pawar has displayed his resolve to take up challenges and seems to have given a new lease of life to his party by hitting the highest strike rate as per the initial counting trends.
Several recent moves of Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior leader of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), have led to talks that his discontent within the ruling Mahayuti alliance is growing.
AN AUTORICKSHAW plastered with election posters stands in the middle of a busy market blaring out its message on the PA system, “Apki baar…Sunetra Pawar!”
With five days to go for the start of the five-phase elections in Maharashtra, Mahayuti partners BJP, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are struggling to arrive at a consensus on nine of the 48 Lok Sabha seats that go to polls on in the third, fourth, and fifth phases and whose nomination dates close on April 19, April 25, and May 3 respectively.