Amid the brainstorming and posturing to unlock the management query throughout the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP), the Ajit Pawar camp was left red-faced this morning over a lacking bunch of keys.
As he takes on his uncle Sharad Pawar within the combat for the social gathering’s management, Ajit Pawar, now Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, is to inaugurate a brand new social gathering workplace close to the state secretariat. However when leaders loyal to Ajit Pawar reached the brand new ‘Rashtrawadi Bhavan’ this morning, they discovered themselves locked out and the keys lacking.
Celebration leaders had been seen sitting on chairs exterior the locked doorways as calls had been made to trace down the keys on the earliest. Later, visuals confirmed youth leaders attempting to interrupt down a lock in order that they’ll enter the bungalow and prep it for inauguration by Ajit Pawar later within the day. As soon as inside, they confronted a brand new downside: the doorways of rooms inside had been locked too.
The bungalow chosen by Ajit Pawar for the social gathering workplace earlier belonged to Ambadas Danve, Chief of the Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council and a loyalist of Uddhav Thackeray. Mr Danve has now been allotted one other bungalow.
NCP chief Appa Sawant advised NDTV that the non-public assistant of Mr Danve slept on the bungalow. “Now we have made all preparations inside, however the PA locked up and left. Now we have known as him. He mentioned he’s on his strategy to Mantralaya and can hand over the keys to us,” mentioned Mr Sawant, the vice-president of NCP’s Mumbai wing. The NCP chief additionally alleged a conspiracy behind this.
Ajit Pawar’s key conundrum is taking part in out on a day when the factions led by him and his uncle Sharad Pawar are holding key conferences to plan their subsequent strikes. The NCP’s allies, the Congress and the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), are additionally assembly right now to debate the shock developments over the previous couple of days.
Each camps have claimed that they characterize the actual NCP, however they haven’t spelt out the variety of MLAs backing them.
Sharad Pawar has cracked down on the rebels, sacking senior leaders akin to Praful Patel for attending the ceremony on Sunday throughout which Ajit Pawar and eight different MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-led authorities. The faction led by Pawar senior has submitted a petition to Maharashtra Meeting Speaker Rahul Narvekar, in search of the disqualification of Ajit Pawar and his eight loyalists.
The social gathering has additionally written to the Election Fee, stressing that Sharad Pawar, NCP’s founder, continues to go the social gathering.
