Deputy CM of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar with some Ministers from his Nationalist Congress Party camp met NCP president Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on July 16.
This was the first meeting between Sharad Pawar and the group- led by Ajit Pawar after he mutinied against his uncle and joined the Eknath Shinde government on July 2.
Praful Patel, described the meeting, saying “ We came to meet Sharad Pawar on knowing he was then at theY.B. Chavan Center. We sought his blessings and expressed our want that the NCP remains as one party. We had gone there to seek his guidance. still,Mr. Pawar didn’t gave any response. He simply heard us out. ”
Ajit Pawar and Praful Patel were joined by other NCP Ministers including Hasan Mushrif, Chhagan Bhujbal, Aditi Tatkare and Dilip Walse Patil.
Sharad Pawar patriot Jayant Patil, after the meeting, said that the MLAs had expressed remorse over the recent events. “ The Nine MLAs who had taken pledge as Ministers and those leaders who joined the current government suddenly came to meet Sharad Pawar They’ve expressed remorse at what has happed and prompted him to show them a path out of these complications. They prompted him to take a decision grounded on the larger interests of the party. still,Mr. Pawar didn’t give any response, ” he said.
On Friday, Ajit Pawar visited Silver Oak, the sanctioned hearthstone of the NCP supremo, to meet the latter’s woman Pratibha Pawar after she passed a surgery at a sanitarium then.
Ajit Pawar is known to be close to his aunt Pratibha. In 2019, she reportedly played a pivotal part in bringing him back to the NCP fold after he and Devendra Fadnavis formed a short- lived government after the Assembly pates.
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