In a revelation, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar said the NCP had sought a share of the Chief Minister's post from Uddhav Thackeray, which led to delays in the formation the Maharashtra government by the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, addressing a gathering of MLAs of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress' newly formed alliance said that there will be no problem for the alliance to prove its majority on the floor of the house.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday told the Supreme Court that he is from the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and has been authorised by 54 of the party's MLAs to take a decision on their behalf on government formation in the state.
Senior Shiv Sena leader, Sanjay Raut tweeted, "We are all one and together, watch our 162 together for the first time at Grand Hyatt at 7 pm
Sharad Pawar-Ajit Pawar, Bal Thackeray-Raj Thackeray, Gopinath Munde-Dhananjay Munde. Troubled uncle-nephew relationships have rocked the boat of more than one party trying to steer its way through Maharashtra's troubled political waters with the crisis in the NCP only the latest in the series.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday said he was not behind Ajit Pawar's decision to align with the BJP and become the deputy chief minister, and asserted that his party along with Congress and Shiv Sena will form the next government in Maharashtra. Addressing reporters in Karad town of neighbouring Satara district, the NCP chief reiterated that the decision of aligning with the BJP was that of his nephew Ajit Pawar and not of the NCP.
In a dramatic turn of events, Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar were sworn in as chief minister and deputy chief minister respectively by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at 8 am on Saturday at a hush-hush ceremony in Raj Bhavan, leading to the lifting of the President's rule in the state.
NCP Chief Sharad Pawar has ruled out the possibility of an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra. In his tweet, Pawar also made it clear that the NCP has decided to ally with the Shiv Sena and the Congress party.
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar leaves for Karad to attend an event on the death anniversary of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Yashwantrao Chavan today.
Ajit Pawar thanked the BJP leaders who had sent him congratulatory messages on Twitter on him becoming the Deputy CM of the state.
NCP Chief Sharad Pawar has ruled out the possibility of an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra. In his tweet, Pawar also made it clear that the NCP has decided to ally with the Shiv Sena and the Congress party.
Penning an emotional social media post on the ongoing turmoil on the home and political fronts, Rohit R. Pawar, the grand-nephew of Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar on Sunday appealed for unity both within the family and the party.
Three attempts to persuade Ajit Pawar have proved futile - two on Saturday when Dilip Walse Patil and Hasan Mushrif met him and one on Sunday when Jayant Patil was sent to him by Sharad Pawar.
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar reaches Renaissance Hotel to meet party MLAs
The NCP on Sunday said one of its its 'missing' MLAs Anil Patil has expressed faith in the leadership of Sharad Pawar, indicating his return to the party fold.
The erstwhile Janata Dal that had been formed with the coming together of the Janata Party, Jan Morcha, Lok Dal (A) and Lok Dal (B), had won the 1989 assembly elections and Chaudhary Ajit Singh had been declared as the party's chief ministerial candidate.
Maharashtra: BJP MP Sanjay Kakade arrives at NCP Chief Sharad Pawar's residence in Mumbai.
It was a night of long knives in Maharashtra politics that saw it all -- coup within a family, outsmarting the smartest Maratha politician Sharad Pawar -- and invocation of Rule 12 of the the Government of India (Transaction of Business) to bypass the need of Union Cabinet's approval for revocation of the President's rule.
Hours after the day-break drama tumbled out of the comfortable confines of Raj Bhavan, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) seems to have been catapulted in an enviable position of being the new 'king-maker' in Maharashtra. Despite having a house divided with Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar looking at different directions
The BJP leadership seems to have cashed in on a simmering feud within NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar's family by managing an overnight coup just as final contours of a coalition between the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena to form government in Maharashtra were emerging.
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