Bharat Express

Nationalist Congress Party

Around two dozen NCP leaders from Pimpri-Chinchwad have defected to Sharad Pawar's faction, dealing a setback to Ajit Pawar ahead of key elections.

Uddhav Thackeray, buoyed by his faction's nine-seat win compared to the breakaway group's seven, indicated a firm stance against those who had defected but left some room for reconciliation.

NCP swiftly rejected recent assertions made by Praful Patel regarding Pawar's purported readiness to align with the BJP.

Recently, there has been widespread violence in Maharashtra due to the demand for a reservation for Marathas.

Sharad Pawar, the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), asserted on Wednesday that Mayawati, the head of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), is engaged in discussions with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray held a press conference on Wednesday in anticipation of the upcoming meeting of the opposition bloc INDIA, scheduled for tomorrow in Mumbai.

In July, Sharad Pawar's party was splitted after Ajit Pawar and a number of NCP MLAs joined the Shiv Sena-BJP administration in Maharashtra.

Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister in the Eknath Shinde government

Ajit Pawar joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra administration as the deputy chief minister.

"Thackeray agreed that if the NDA gets majority, Fadnavis will be the chief minister (again) of Maharashtra. However, after the results (in 2019), Thackeray broke the promise and sat in the Congress-NCP's lap.": Amit Shah