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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar was named as the party’s nominee for the Rajya Sabha bypoll on Thursday. The development is likely to ruffle many feathers in the NCP even though senior party leader and minister Chhagan Bhujbal claimed that he was not upset over rejection of his claim to this nomination.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who left for Italy Thursday to attend G7 Summit, is set to participate in the outreach session at the Summit on Friday.
Despite putting up an impressive performance in the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) now seems to be bracing for checking factionalism and infighting within the party in the run-up to the high-stakes state Assembly elections due for October this year.
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.
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.
Sharad Pawar believes the Congress is on the upswing — whether or not it forms the government this time.
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!”
Making her debut in electoral politics, the Ajit Pawar-led NCP’s Baramati candidate Sunetra Pawar said it was her duty towards husband, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar that made her contest the election. She is taking on family member and sitting MP Supriya Sule, daughter of NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and winner of the past three Lok Sabha elections, in the Pawar bastion.