NCP president Supriya Sule said there are no personal differences with her brother Ajit Pawar, who joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government in July. Her statement came when Ajit Pawar met NCP chief Sharad Pawar, sparking speculation in state political circles.
During Sharad Pawar’s meeting with Ajit Pawar in Maharashtra, Sule said, “Relationships should not come between politics. The fight between the NCP and Ajit Pawar is ideological and not personal”.
Giving further example, Sule said the Pawar family has decade-old relations with several families in the BJP, with no personal differences despite political differences.
“There are many such families in the Bharatiya Janata Party with whom the Pawar family has had decade-old relations. For example, Atalji’s family includes Pramod Mahajan, Gopinath Munde, Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh. There are certainly political differences, but they are there too. no personal differences with any family,” she added.
Sharad Pawar’s daughter and NCP Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule said the meeting was not a political rally. It was the second such meeting between the uncle and the nephew after the Ajit Pawar-led group joined the Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra in July.
The battle between the Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar factions started after Ajit Pawar split from the NCP to join hands with the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government. He was subsequently sworn in as the deputy chief minister of the state along with Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP. Ajit Pawar claimed leadership of the NCP on the grounds that his group had the support of 42 of the party’s 53 MLAs, six MLCs in Maharashtra and all seven MLAs in Nagaland.
Coming back to Sule, she also shared an update on Sharad Pawar’s health and said that “the love and blessings from all of you are the tonic of Pawar Saheb”.
NCP supremo Sharad Pawar felt unwell during a meeting at his hometown Baramati in Maharashtra’s Pune district and was advised to rest by doctors, party sources said. The 82-year-old leader was attending a meeting at Vidya Pratishthan, a trust run by his family, when he felt unwell and was immediately examined by doctors, they said.
Talking about the NCP’s name and symbol row, on November 10, Sharad Pawar faction’s counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused the Ajit Pawar group of submitting fake affidavits to the Election Commission to lay claim to the name and the party’s poll symbol and urged the poll panel to take punitive action for allegedly falsifying evidence. Giving examples of such forged affidavits, Singhvi presented a list of affidavits filed with the European Commission that are riddled with errors. He also gave examples of affidavits in which the person involved was dead, but that person’s affidavit had been filed, and another in which a minor filed an affidavit. Meanwhile, the first hearing was held last month on a claim by the Ajit Pawar-led rival NCP faction over the party’s name and election symbol.
(With inputs from ANI, PTI)
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Updated: Nov 13, 2023 08:21 IST