Mumbai: A committee to select the successor of Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) president Sharad Pawar will meet for the primary time Friday morning whilst senior social gathering leaders are attempting to persuade him to rethink his choice.
NCP Maharashtra president Jayant Patil informed the media Thursday that the panel, as recommended by Sharad Pawar, will meet at 11 am Friday on the social gathering workplace in Mumbai.
“Many social gathering leaders are insisting Pawar to stay the social gathering president until the upcoming Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections. However (it) appears like he isn’t prone to change his choice,” Patil mentioned.
Amid hypothesis on Sharad Pawar’s successor, some senior leaders being seen as aspirants have taken themselves out of the race. On Wednesday, senior chief and former Union minister Praful Patel mentioned that he has no need to develop into the social gathering chief.
The identical line was repeated on Thursday by Jayant Patil. “I work in Maharashtra. I’ve no contacts in different states or in Delhi, I’m of the opinion {that a} chief who’s a Member of Parliament and has expertise of nationwide politics ought to take this duty,” he mentioned.
A piece of senior NCP leaders is of the opinion that if Pawar doesn’t rethink his choice, one different may very well be to provide the social gathering’s nationwide duty to his daughter and Baramati MP Supriya Sule, and the state’s reins to nephew Ajit Pawar.
Senior chief Chhagan Bhujbal informed ThePrint that his suggestion on the committee assembly shall be to nominate Sule as the following social gathering president.
“The division is evident. Supriya Sule who’s the nationwide face can head the social gathering and take care of the nationwide affairs of the social gathering whereas Ajit Pawar can maintain the state stage affairs,” Bhujbal informed ThePrint.
As Sule is an MP, he recommended, she is aware of everybody within the nationwide capital and has additionally been awarded as Sansad Ratna. Ajit Pawar has at all times been in Maharashtra and he ought to take care of the state affairs, he added.
Bhujbal asserted that the ultimate choice could be made by the committee. All of the leaders will make their very own suggestion as properly after which the committee will take the ultimate choice, he added.
On Tuesday, the NCP patriarch had shocked the rank and file of his social gathering by asserting that he was stepping down because the social gathering president on the launch of his up to date autobiography, ‘Lok Maze Sangati’ (Folks, My Companion), in Mumbai.
The panel to chart out a succession plan includes senior leaders Praful Patel, Sunil Tatkare, Ok.Ok. Sharma, P.C. Chacko, Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil, Supriya Sule, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil, Anil Deshmukh, Rajesh Tope, Jitendra Awhad, Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Munde, and Jaydev Gaikwad.
Fauzia Khan, president, NCP Mahila Congress; Dheeraj Sharma, president, NCP Youth Congress; and Sonia Duhan, president, NCP Scholar Congress, are ex-officio members.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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