Sharad Pawar's Crucial Meeting Tonight In Delhi In the midst of NCP Crisis

President of the NCP
Sharad Pawar has called for a national executive meeting to be held in New
Delhi on Thursday. The meeting is held a day after Maharashtra Deputy Chief
Minister Ajit Pawar stated that he aspired to become the state’s chief minister
and criticised Sharad Pawar for asking his 83-year-old uncle when he would
retire from active politics. 

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Sharad Pawar stated on Wednesday that he will keep
the NCP’s election symbol, a timepiece, and no one will be able to steal it
from him. This statement was made after dissident NCP leader Ajit Pawar
approached the Election Commission and claimed the party’s name and symbol.

Sources told ABP News
that the rebel NCP faction told the Election Commission that Ajit Pawar, not
Sharad Pawar, was the national head of the party. Ajit Pawar also claimed the
name and sign of the Nationalist Congress Party. He said that more than 35 MLAs
back him.

Here are the highlights:

• On Wednesday, the two groups each met
  with their MLAs in Mumbai. This was a chance to show how strong they were.

• The leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman
  Sena, Raj Thackeray, has made fun of the Nationalist Congress Party and Sharad
  Pawar for supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). According to the PTI,
  Raj Thackeray said that Sharad Pawar knows about all of this because he was in
  on the transition from Ajit Pawar to deputy CM in the Shinde ministry.

• Shiv Sena MLAs were said to be unhappy
  after Ajit Pawar of the NCP joined the Maharashtra government, but the party
  denied on Wednesday that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde would step down soon.
  Chandrashekhar Bawankule, who is the head of the BJP in Maharashtra, said that
  Shinde would stay as Chief Minister. Shinde called a meeting of MLAs, and Uday
  Samant told reporters afterward that all future polls would be run by Eknath
  Shinde.

• The senior politician, who has been in
  politics for 60 years, didn’t like that a big picture of him was on the stage
  at the meeting held by the Ajit Pawar group. He said that those who used his
  picture knew they had nothing else to show. Senior Pawar told his followers
  that he won’t let anyone take the party symbol from the group led by Ajit
  Pawar. This was in response to the group led by Ajit Pawar going to the EC and
  claiming the party symbol.

• Ajit Pawar sent an appeal to the Election
  Commission of India claiming the NCP and its symbol. Jayant Patil also told the
  Election Commission that they have started the process in eliminating 9 MLAs
  from office. To avoid the anti-defection rule, Ajit Pawar needs the support of
  at least 36 MLAs, two-thirds of the assembly’s elected leaders. In the
  Maharashtra assembly, the NCP has 53 MLAs.

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