Sharad Pawar, head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), said on Monday that his meeting with his nephew, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, in Pune caused no uncertainty within the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition.
Pawar informed reporters in Baramati, “The MVA is united and we will successfully organize the next meeting of opposition bloc INDIA in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1.”
The 82-year-old senior politician made his first trip back to his native country since Ajit Pawar joined the Eknath Shinde-led administration on July 2.
The NCP leader had been requested by MVA supporters Congress and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) to clarify the uncertainty that such interactions between the uncle and nephew cause in the political world.
The MVA partners are clear-headed. The INDIA conference in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1 would be well organized since we are all working together, Pawar stated.
Pawar urged the media to avoid asking the same question again and further confusing matters. Pawar said, “I have accepted the duty of organizing the INDIA meeting in Mumbai together with Uddhav Thackeray and state Congress president Nana Patole.
The venue for the gathering will be a five-star hotel. Pawar made reference to his nephew’s activity by saying that the NCP has no affiliation with “factions from MVA” that support the BJP at the state and federal levels.
Nawab Malik, the head of the NCP who was given two months’ interim release by the Supreme Court on Friday in a money laundering case, is someone Pawar said he expects to talk with. The former minister was detained on February 23 of last year by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a case involving the suspected gangster Dawood Ibrahim and the Kurla property known as the Goawala complex. Malik was hospitalized to a private hospital in Kurla in May of last year and has been held in judicial custody since March 2022. He’s still being treated there.
In response to a query on an editorial in Monday’s issue of Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana criticizing the ‘frequent meetings’ between him and Ajit Pawar, Pawar dodged the matter.
