Sharad Pawar, the president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has arrived in Delhi amid the escalating political unrest in Maharashtra. The National Executive meeting of the party is slated to take place today.
Supriya Sule, the NCP working president, and Sharad Pawar, the party’s leader, arrived at the Delhi airport for the party’s national executive meeting today. “All is well and all will remain well,” Sule stated.
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), meantime, reportedly took down the NCP president’s posters and billboards on Wednesday morning.
Mumbai’s meeting between the two sides yesterday
Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar summoned two separate meetings of the party yesterday in Mumbai.
The meeting organized by the Ajit Pawar group was attended by up to 32 of the 53 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs, while 18 MLAs were present in the conclave where NCP leader Sharad Pawar spoke.
According to reports, Sharad Pawar criticized his nephew Ajit Pawar for entering the Shiv Sena-BJP administration during the meeting as they made fun of each other’s age and the usage of the latter’s picture.
Meetings of the NCP’s Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar camps were held, respectively, at the Mumbai Educational Trust (rpt Mumbai Educational Trust) in suburban Bandra and the Yashwantrao Chavan Centre in south Mumbai.
Ajit Pawar, who took the oath of office as deputy chief minister on July 2 along with eight other leaders who joined the Eknath Shinde administration, reminded his 83-year-old uncle that it was time for him to step down from active politics while surrounded by party members, including 32 of the NCP’s 53 MLAs.
The Congress will also convene.
Along with today’s meeting of the Congress Core Committee in Mumbai, Maharashtra Congress is also planning to hold its national executive meeting of the NCP in Delhi.
Nana Patole, the party’s state president, will preside over the gathering.
The conference is anticipated to cover topics such as the opposition leader, the state’s political climate at the moment, and the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
