NCP chief Sharad Pawar

Milind Deora attributed Congress’s broader struggles and loss in Maharashtra to the party’s earlier alliance decisions with UBT faction

NEW DELHI: In a significant blow to veteran politician Sharad Pawar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on February 6th declared that the faction led by his nephew Ajit Pawar is the legitimate ‘Nationalist Congress Party’ (NCP). This ruling brings an end to a 25-year-long factional dispute within the party, with Ajit Pawar’s group granted […]

Pawar, who has been the president of the NCP since its inception in 1999, also announced that he would not contest elections in the future.

NEW DELHI: The Opposition parties are scheduled to meet at the Delhi residence of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday evening. The agenda for the meeting is to pick up a name for the vice-presidential poll. Sources told The New Indian that the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which was at the […]

NEW DELHI: Before brewing up an opposition strategy for the upcoming Presidential election scheduled on July 18, Trinamool Congress supremo met NCP chief Sharad Pawar today evening. The meeting added extra flavour as it came a day before Banerjee’s call on for a crucial all-opposition party meeting tomorrow at the constitution club. The meeting lasted […]