NCP energy politics | Pawar outage

Where does the elevation of Supriya Sule and Praful Patel as NCP’s working presidents depart Ajit Pawar? Some assume it’s going to thwart his ambition. Others say he stays the one NCP chief with consummate clout on the bottom

ISSUE DATE: Jun 26, 2023 | UPDATED: Jun 16, 2023 22:18 IST

NOT SUCH A BRAVE FRONT: Ajit Pawar at a press convention in Mumbai, June 8. (Photo: ANI)

The energy battle throughout the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) took a big activate June 10 when get together supremo Sharad Pawar introduced the appointment of his daughter and Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule and former Union minister Praful Patel because the working presidents of the get together. With Sule thus anointed as her father’s political inheritor, all eyes are on her mercurial cousin and Maharashtra chief of opposition Ajit Pawar. Ajit refused to remark instantly after his cousin’s appointment because the efficient No. 2 within the NCP. He later denied that he was upset. “I am very content,” he informed the media. “This is unnecessary (speculation).” Ajit additionally tweeted in assist of the newly-appointed functionaries.

Published By:

Arindam Mukherjee

Published On:

Jun 16, 2023