A day after NCP chief Ajit Pawar met his estranged uncle Sharad Pawar to want him on his 84th birthday, Sunanda Pawar, the mom of NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar, mentioned Friday that the 2 factions ought to come collectively.
In response, the NCP mentioned the Sharad Pawar group is welcome to affix palms with them offered they’re prepared to just accept the management of Ajit Pawar.
Whereas talking to reporters in Pune, Sunanda Pawar mentioned, “Yearly, all of us meet Sharad Pawar… As a household, we must always all come collectively”.
“I can’t say whether or not Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar will come collectively. Each household has variations. In future, they will come collectively. I feel they need to come collectively. If we’re united, it will increase our power, if we’re divided, the power is diminished. The 2 ought to determine who ought to go along with whom,” she mentioned.
When requested whether or not the Senior Pawar also needs to be a part of palms with the ruling events, Sunanda Pawar mentioned, “Sharad Pawar has been in politics for 60 years. What he ought to do and what he shouldn’t is his name. I’m no one to advise him”.
Sunanda Pawar is married to Rajendra Pawar, the son of Dinkarrao Pawar — Sharad Pawar’s older brother.
NCP spokesperson Amol Mitkari mentioned they “welcome” Sunanda Pawar’s assertion.
“Even Ajit Pawar had made the identical attraction throughout a rally he addressed at Shanmukhanand Corridor in Mumbai…At present, underneath the management of Ajit Pawar, the NCP is rising quickly. We’ve got 41 MLAs, one Lok Sabha MP and two Rajya Sabha. If the Sharad Pawar group desires to affix palms with us, we’ll welcome them. However they must truthfully settle for the management of Ajit Pawar… Celebration employees additionally really feel that the 2 NCP ought to come collectively,” mentioned Mitkari.
Nevertheless, after Ajit Pawar visited Sharad Pawar at his Delhi residence Thursday, their first assembly in additional than a yr, leaders of the NCP (SP) dismissed any hypothesis of a potential reunion.
Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar fell out after he broke away from the principle Nationalist Congress Celebration to kind the federal government with the Bharatiya Janata Celebration in Maharashtra in July 2023. After that, members of the family have contested towards one another within the Lok Sabha elections 2024 and the just lately concluded Maharashtra Meeting polls.
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