New Delhi [India] : Amid a tussle in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the workers of the party on Thursday removed old posters which had of Ajit Pawar, Praful Patel alongside Sharad Pawar from outside the office premises in New Delhi.
The posters were replaced with a new one with ‘Gaddaar’ (traitor) written on it. The poster which was put up by the Rashtrawadi Vidyarthi Congress – the student wing of the party, depicted a scene from the film ‘Baahubali – The Beginning’, showing its character ‘Kattappa’ stabbing ‘Amarendra Baahubali’ in the back.
Notably, NCP president Sharad Pawar is in Delhi on Thursday for a national executive meeting. Ahead of the crucial meeting, several posters have come up in front of the NCP office in support of Pawar.
Some read: “In the fight of truth and lie, the entire country is with Sharad Pawar.” “India’s history is such that it has never forgiven those who have betrayed,” read another one put up outside Pawar’s residence in Delhi. However, later it was removed by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC).
With the NCP witnessing the unraveling of the party, the Pawar family feud played out on stage on Wednesday as NCP factions headed by Sharad Pawar and his nephew held rival meetings at Yashwantrao Chavan Centre in south Mumbai and in Bhujbal Knowledge City in suburban Bandra, respectively. While sources revealed that Election Commission has received a petition from Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar staking claim to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the party symbol.
The sources said the Election Commission has also received a caveat from Jayant Patil, who is with the Sharad Pawar group. He also informed the panel that they have initiated a disqualification process against nine MLAs who joined the Eknath Shinde-BJP government in the state on Sunday. The politics of Maharashtra is on the boil since Sunday as senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar took oath as the deputy chief minister of the state.
Ajit Pawar joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government with 8 other MLAs and has claimed control over the Nationalist Congress Party. On Wednesday, Ajit Pawar took a veiled dig at his uncle Sharad Pawar regarding his age that left the NCP Supremo’s party members and loyalists fuming and resulted into a chain of reactions.
