Ajit Pawar Faction Submits 40 Responses To Speaker, Team Sharad Only 9

The rival factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Sharad Pawar and his 64-year-old nephew Ajit Pawar presented their responses to MaharashtraMaharashtraMaharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Friday in connection with disqualification petitions filed against each other.

Since then, both factions have asserted their rights to the party name and symbol, filing petitions with the Speaker to disqualify those supporting the opposing side. Mr. Sharad Pawar’s faction had filed a disqualification petition against 40 MLAs who allied with Mr. Ajit Pawar. The Deputy Chief Minister-led group of the NCP had also submitted a petition to Mr.

Narwekar, seeking the disqualification of 10 MLAs affiliated to party supremo Mr. Sharad Pawar. The MLAs are State chief Jayant Patil, Anil Deshmukh, Jitendra Awhad, Rohit Pawar, Rajesh Tope, Balasaheb Patil, Sunil Bhusara, Sandeep Kshirsagar, Suman Patil and Prajakt Tanpure.