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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.
Close on the heels of its impressive performance in Maharashtra in the recent Lok Sabha elections, infighting is back within the Mumbai Congress, with a group of senior party leaders seeking the ouster of its chief and newly-elected Mumbai North Central MP, Varsha Gaikwad.
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…”.
At a time when the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra is in the initial stages of assessing its below-par performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the outcome of the elections to 11 seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, the dates for which are expected to be announced soon, may test the loyalty of the MLAs of the ruling coalition as well as the Opposition.
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.
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.
The Congress has made major gains in Maharashtra’s reserved seats with a spirited campaign — centered around the political rhetoric that Narendra Modi 3.0 with a 400-plus mandate could change the Constitution and undermine the reservation regime.
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.