NCP, gearing up to fight it out for a larger share of the Maharashtra ministerial portfolios than senior partner Congress is inclined to give, seems to have been spared further trouble at home. For the time being.Party chief Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar, believed to be sulking for not being picked to be Deputy Chief Minister, spoke out on Tuesday to set matters straight.Pawar said he was not upset,...
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Shiv Sena has urged NCP leader Ajit Pawar to quit the Congress-NCP allianceand form a government on his own, and has suggested that the powerful NCPchieftain team up with the Sena-BJP to pull the rug out from under theCongress's feet.In a signed article in the party's mouthpiece Saamnaon Sunday, Sena MP Sanjay Raut said Ajit should revive the ProgressiveDemocratic Front (PDF) experiment of 1978 and...
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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar Tuesday insisted that 'no injustice' has been done to him by the selection of Chhagan Bhujbal as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister.Ajit Pawar, a strong contender for the post, was bypassed by his uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar in favour of Bhujbal.'The decision to elect Bhujbal as deputy chief minister was taken unanimously by the party and I am...
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Mumbai Oct 27 : Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar Tuesday insisted that 'no injustice' has been done to him by the selection of Chhagan Bhujbal as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister.Ajit Pawar, a strong contender for the post, was bypassed by his uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar in favour of Bhujbal."The decision to elect Bhujbal as deputy chief minister was taken unanimously by the...
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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar Tuesday insisted that "no injustice" has been done to him by the selection of Chhagan Bhujbal as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister.Ajit Pawar, a strong contender for the post, was bypassed by his uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar in favour of Bhujbal."The decision to elect Bhujbal as deputy chief minister was taken unanimously by the party and I am...
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Mumbai Oct 27 : Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar Tuesday insisted that "no injustice" has been done to him by the selection of Chhagan Bhujbal as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister.Ajit Pawar, a strong contender for the post, was bypassed by his uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar in favour of Bhujbal."The decision to elect Bhujbal as deputy chief minister was taken unanimously by the...
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BJP in Maharashtra Thursday said they had not made any kind of offer to senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who was sidelined for the post of deputy chief minister."There is no offer from our side," state BJP president Nitin Gadkari told reporters here.He was replying to Ajit Pawar's remarks published in a leading newspaper that he was offered the chief minister's post by Sena-BJP leaders if he broke away...
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Striking a tough posture, Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) today made it clear it would not be a part of the new government in Maharashtra if the ruling ally Congress does not follow the 1999 formula of allocation of key home, finance and Power portfolios."We feel that the portfolios should be shared as per the arrangement between the two parties in 1999. At that time, Congress held...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who would be sworn-in the post for a third time, is among the most popular leaders in the Sharad Pawar-led NCP and has come a long way from being a rabble-rouser in his Shiv Sena days.Bhujbal split the Sena in 1991, taking around a dozen Sena MLAs to the Congress, then led by Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra.At that time, unlike this Assembly elections,...
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Chhagan Bhujbal (right) being greeted by his NCP colleagues Praful Patel (left) and R.R. Patil after his election as the party’s legislature party leader, in Mumbai on Monday. —MUMBAI: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Monday elected Chhagan Bhujbal as the leader of its legislature party, thereby making him the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.His election came despite a strong demand from...
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