In a setback for the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, 4 prime leaders of the get together’s Pimpri-Chinchwad unit have resigned and should quickly be a part of Sharad Sharad Pawar faction. The event comes after the NCP’s poor exhibiting within the latest Lok Sabha elections and months away from the Maharashtra Meeting polls.
NCP’s Pimpri-Chinchwad unit chief Ajit Gavahane, Pimpri-Chinchwad scholar wing chief Yash Sane and former society members Rahul Bhosale and Pankaj Bhalekar have submitted their resignations to Ajit Pawar.
Sources mentioned Ajit Gavahane resigned after his bid for Bhosali Meeting seat failed. BJP MLA Mahesh Landge was elected from Bhosali constituency within the final two phrases.
Pimpri-Chinchewode has been a stronghold of the Nationwide Communist Occasion for many years.
Within the Lok Sabha polls, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) shocked Maharashtra’s ruling Mahayutthir alliance by successful 30 of the 48 seats. Ajit Pawar-led Nationwide Congress Occasion (NCP) received just one seat in Raigad, whereas Sharad Pawar’s faction bagged eight seats.
The resignations got here amid heated debate Some leaders of Ajit Pawar’s camp Prepared to return to Sharad Pawar camp. Earlier this month, Sharad Pawar claimed that some MLAs from the breakaway Nationwide Communist Occasion (NCP) faction met the get together’s senior chief Jayant Patil.
There are additionally speculations that Maharashtra minister and senior NCP chief Chagan Bhujbal could dump Ajit Pawar. Final month, a senior chief of Maha Vikas Aghadi’s Shiv Sena (UBT) met Bhujbal.
Sources mentioned Bhujbal was essential of Ajit Pawar’s nomination of spouse Sunee after he misplaced to Supriya Sule within the Baramati Lok Sabha elections Sunetra entered the Federal Home feeling uneasy.
Bhujbal is an influential OBC chief who’s vying for a federal home seat and subsequently a federal ministry put up.
