NCP petitioned for the disqualification of 9 MLAs, including Ajit Pawar, and wrote an email to the EC

 NCP petitioned for the disqualification of 9 MLAs, including Ajit Pawar, and wrote an email to the EC

The Nationalist Congress Party, which Sharad Pawar founded in 1999, saw a rupture on Sunday after his nephew Ajit Pawar became the deputy chief minister of the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition. In addition to Ajit Pawar, the party has appointed 8 other MLAs to the position of minister.

Mumbai. The Nationalist Conservative Party (NCP) has requested disqualification against Ajit Pawar, who took the oath of office as deputy chief minister, and eight other MLAs who took the oath of office as ministers in the Eknath Shinde-led state government, according to Jayant Patil, president of the NCP's Maharashtra unit. A petition was submitted.

Patil announced the disqualification petition had been sent to Assembly Chairman Rahul Narvekar during an interview with reporters late on Sunday night. He claimed that the Election Commission of India had also received an email informing it that NCP leaders and supporters were with the party's leader Sharad Pawar.

Sharad Pawar created the party in 1999, but it broke on Sunday after his nephew Ajit Pawar became the deputy chief minister of the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition. In addition to Ajit Pawar, the party has appointed 8 other MLAs to the position of minister. These include the allegedly Sharad Pawar-loyal Chhagan Bhujbal and Dilip Walse Patil.

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Sharad Pawar, the head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), responded to the incident on Sunday by announcing that the NCP would have a new leadership and that when such issues develop within the party, people get more motivated to work. Pawar added that he serves as the public face of

Pawar praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership while criticising the Shinde government's MLAs, saying he did not know what shifted in the last four years (since the 2019 assembly elections). He remarked, "Four years ago, when we were running for office, PM Modi was both our aim and our target. What just transpired today after four years of battling (him)? The truth is that he needed authority and wanted to leave because of that.