Ajit Pawar, Praful Patel, different insurgent NCP leaders meet Sharad Pawar

Ajit Pawar, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, together with all Nationalist Congress Party ministers paid an surprising go to to the social gathering president Sharad Pawar on Sunday, July 16, a day earlier than the beginning of the monsoon session of the Maharashtra Assembly. Ajit had lately rebelled in opposition to his uncle and the patriarch of the social gathering to hitch the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party authorities in Maharashtra.

Ajit Pawar was joined by social gathering veterans like Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Hasan Mashrif and Aditi Tatkare on the Yashwantrao Chavan Centre to fulfill the senior Pawar.

Mumbai | Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar together with Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal and Dilip Walse Patil at Mumbai’s YB Chavan Centre pic.twitter.com/SbyrWOHpe9

— ANI (@ANI) July 16, 2023

Following the assembly, senior social gathering chief Praful Patel remarked, “We have all arrived at the Yashwantrao Chavan Centre to meet with our revered leader Sharad Pawar. We learned that he was present here while we were at Ajit Pawar’s residence. All of our ministers and leaders, including the respected Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil and Dhananjay Munde among others are in attendance at this time.”

Patel additional added, “We came here without letting him know. We greeted him and asked for his blessings. We requested that our party should stay united and work together in the future. We urged him to think about the same. He listened to us but didn’t respond to our submission.”

Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal, in addition to different insurgent NCP leaders, nonetheless, didn’t discuss to the media.

#WATCH | We all got here right here to hunt the blessings of revered Sharad Pawar in the present day. We requested Pawar sahib that NCP ought to keep united. On this, Sharad Pawar didn’t give any response: Praful Patel, Ajit Pawar faction chief, at Mumbai’s YB Chavan Centre pic.twitter.com/lvgXV2AZdy

— ANI (@ANI) July 16, 2023

NCP-Sharad Pawar faction chief Jayant Patil additionally reached the centre and acknowledged, “I got a call from Supriya Sule who asked me to reach YB Chavan centre soon. I do not know why Ajit Pawar and other MLAs have come here.”

In a startling political transfer, Ajit Pawar and eight different outstanding leaders together with Praful Patel and Chhagan Bhujbal joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra authorities on July 2 which resulted in a serious break up within the NCP. Ajit Pawar was appointed deputy chief minister whereas the others had been sworn in as ministers in a ceremony performed on the Raj Bhavan.