Days after leading a revolt and splitting NCP, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said that the majority of party MLAs are with him.
Nationalist Congress Party's Sharad Pawar faction leader, Clyde Crasto, on Tuesday, slammed NCP leader Ajit Pawar after he inaugurated the new party office near Mantralaya in Mumbai, earlier today.
Amid the political churning in Maharashtra after the split in Nationalist Congress Party(NCP), the Congress Legislative Party meeting began on Tuesday at Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and his colleagues from NCP have reached Mantralaya in Mumbai for the cabinet meeting. It will be their first cabinet meeting after taking oath as ministers in the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra.
Days after joining the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra, state Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar will shortly inaugurate a new Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) party office near Mantralaya in Mumbai on Tuesday. Ajit Pawar had claimed that the entire NCP was on his side.
"We removed Praful Patel's photo frame and all other leaders who left NCP since they are not part of the NCP family anymore," NCP student wing national president Sonia Doohan said on Monday.
"The party which has the maximum number of MLAs can demand the LoP post. As per my information, Congress has the maximum number currently and if they ask for it then it's valid demand," NCP Chief Sharad Pawar said on Monday while speaking to reporters.
In a new development in Maharashtra politics on Monday, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) disqualified nine rebel MLAs including Ajit Pawar who were sworn in as ministers in the Shinde-Fadnavis government 'for indulging in anti-party activities'.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Arvind Sawant on Monday said that people know that those who were corrupt are now ministers after NCP leader Ajit Pawar and eight other party leaders joined the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra in a surprise and dramatic political move.
"It is hereby notified all public and office bearers of NCP that from today Ms Sonia Doohan will be in charge of Nationalist Congress Party, New Delhi central office," the release by Sharad Pawar stated.
"Democracy is being attacked. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is breaking and robbing everything. Recently you saw, a prominent leader from Maharashtra had come to Bihar. We had called them to gather support to defeat PM Modi," Lalu Yadav at the launch of the book on Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in Pa
A day after the party suffered a split, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Monday removed party vice president Praful Patel and MP Sunil Tatkare from the party "for indulging in anti-party activities"