NCP can become a part of NDA, UBTSena will have to fight elections with Congress?

Rajesh Sinha

There was an earthquake in the politics of Maharashtra on Sunday afternoon, in which senior leader of Nationalist Congress Party and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ajit Pawar joined the state’s ruling Shiv Sena BJP government with 39 MLAs of his party. On this political earthquake in the state, almost all news agencies are broadcasting news about it from every angle.

But just after 24 hours of this incident, the circumstances are becoming such that Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar can start the work of party formation afresh, ignoring such a big defection in his party. Or else, by joining the National Democratic Alliance of the central government, contest the upcoming Lok Sabha and Vidhansabha elections. In such a situation, Shiv Sena is left with the only option of fighting the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the state in alliance with the Congress.

Joining the state government headed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, senior Nationalist Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Ajit Pawar took oath as Deputy Chief Minister on Sunday afternoon. Nationalist Congress Working President Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil, Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Munde, Dharamraj Atram, Aditi Tatkare, Sanjay Bansode, Anil Patil along with a total of 39 people have extended their support to the Eknath Shinde government in the state. Revealed. And some MLAs took oath as ministers.

Even 24 hours have not been completed of this serious political upheaval in the state, but during this time the picture is constantly changing. announced the re-organization of The same NCP rebel leader Ajit Pawar, after taking oath as Deputy Chief Minister in the state government, made it very clear that we are nationalists, that’s why we have come with nationalist parties. Ajit Pawar or any leader of his party did not make rhetoric of contradiction on NCP supremo Sharad Pawar.

Shortly after this incident, it was reported in the media that some enthusiastic NCP workers had started blackening the pictures of Ajit Pawar and other rebel leaders printed on the banner posters in their respective areas, and soon this news also came. That after the incident of blackening on a similar poster in Thane, Sharad Pawar faction leader Jitendra Awhad himself removed the soot on the banner and also gave strict instructions to his workers not to do so.

Then the new Chief Deputy Chief Minister instructed his supporters across the state to put a picture of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on the banner posters being put up to greet them.
And on Monday morning, this news was also widely discussed in the media that the leaders of Ajit Pawar group can go to meet NCP supremo Sharad Pawar today.

It is not wrong to infer from the events of the last 24 hours in the state that even though NCP supremo Pawar may be talking about reorganizing the NCP or his faction leader Ajit Pawar is making statements about taking legal action against the leaders of the faction. It is clear from the coordinated response coming from both the parties that Sharad Pawar may also join the National Democratic Alliance at the Centre.

Anyway, Sharad Pawar had founded his party Nationalist Congress Party under the politics of anti-Congress. And yesterday on Sunday, Ajit Pawar also said clearly in the press conference held after the swearing-in of the Deputy Chief Minister that we are nationalists, that’s why they came with nationalist parties. Along with this, in 2014, Sharad Pawar had given unconditional support to the Bharatiya Janata Party government, which was in the minority in the state.

With less than a year left for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the opposition camp led by the Congress across the country is trying to unite and Sharad Pawar, NCP supremo Pawar’s role was crucial in this. But it would be natural for Sharad Pawar to come on the backfoot due to this rebellion of his own party on Sunday. And if he contests the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with the NDA, then there will be nothing surprising in this, and in such a state, the Udhav Thackeray faction Shiv Sena will be forced to contest the elections with the Congress.