Maharashtra politics

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday left Mumbai for Delhi where he has called a National Executive meeting. In the meantime, the Maharashtra Congress chapter has called a meeting as it eyes the Opposition role. Yesterday, both Pawars held meetings in Mumbai as a show of strength. Later, Ajit Pawar staked a claim to the NCP and the party symbol while his uncle's camp began the disqualification process against him and the eight other rebel MLAs.Maharashtra politics: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which got a major blow on SundayMaha after nine leaders joined the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government, will hold a meeting on Wednesday to decide the future course of action. NCP chief Sharad Pawar's nephew is among the nine leaders who have joined the BJP-Shiv Sena (Shinde camp)'s alliance. Ajit Pawar has also been sworn-in as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Yesterday, Ajit Pawar inaugurated the new office of NCP, which is the bungalow of Ambadas Danve, Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council and a loyalist of Uddhav Thackeray. Danve has been allotted another bungalow. Ajit Pawar used Sharad's photo at his new office inviting criticism from Uncle Sharad itself. "Those who betrayed my ideology and with whom I have ideological differences cannot use my photograph", the veteran politician told the media.