Ajit Pawar, the head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and 9 other party leaders have unexpectedly joined the Maharashtra cabinet. Pawar was sworn in as the western state’s deputy chief minister, a role he will hold alongside BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis.
Ajit Pawar’s Mumbai home hosted a sizable gathering of NCP legislators earlier today. Supriya Sule, the working president of the party, and Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior official, were present at the meeting. Jayant Patil, the state party’s president, was noticeably missing from the event.
Many people were surprised by the NCP and BJP merger because the two parties have always had opposing views. The action is anticipated to result in a change in the balance of power within the Maharashtra administration.
The following are 5 points about Ajit Pawar’s switch:
1 Forty-three of the 53 NCP MLAs in the state appear to be with Ajit Pawar, the opposition leader in the state Assembly.
2. Earlier in the day, Ajit Pawar had a meeting with a few party officials and MLAs at his official residence, Devgiri, in Mumbai.
3. Among the leaders present at the meeting were Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior NCP politician, and Supriya Sule, the party’s working president. Sharad Pawar, the president of the NCP, claimed to be uninformed of the meeting while he was in Pune.
4. For the third time since 2019, Ajit Pawar took the oath to serve as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra.
5. Sanjay Raut, the leader of the Shiv Sena (UBT), expressed his worry about the political developments and called the creation of the government through vertical divides within political organisations a “circus.” He forewarned that such actions would not be tolerated for long by the people of Maharashtra.
