Mumbai, January 31 (IANS). NCP legislature party leader and wife of late Deputy Minister Ajit Pawar, Sunetra Pawar, has taken oath as Deputy CM of Maharashtra at Lok Bhavan. NCP leaders present at Lok Bhavan raised slogans of ‘Ajit Dada Amar Rahe’ when NCP Legislature Party leader and wife of late Deputy CM Ajit Pawar Sunetra Pawar took oath as the Deputy CM of Maharashtra.
Earlier, after the election of late Deputy CM Ajit Pawar’s wife and Rajya Sabha MP Sunetra Pawar as the NCP legislature party leader, party leaders had met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
NCP leader Anil Bhaidas Patil had said that the most important thing is that first we had to decide with our party workers and all the MLAs how to convince Sunetra Pawar.
He said that this has been such a big blow that it is almost impossible for Sunetra Pawar to recover from it. However, our effort is to hand over the command of the party to someone. We feel that Sunetra Pawar can handle this responsibility at this time because local body elections are also going to be held soon. Ajit Pawar was touring to make all the candidates fielded in the elections win. After the demise of Ajit Pawar, the responsibility of handling the candidates will now be on Sunetra Pawar.
MLA Sana Malik said that if anyone could be immediately accepted in the party after Ajit Pawar, it is Sunetra Pawar. She herself was associated with the workers for the last two years.
On the discussions of merger with Sharad Pawar’s party, Anil Bhaidas Patil said that Dada’s efforts were going on for a possible merger and some of us had some knowledge about it. Conversations were taking place between some leaders and some videos were also going viral in which leaders close to Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar were seen talking. But after the death of Ajit Pawar, no one is going to answer what issues, alliance and merger were discussed during the meeting.
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