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In July 2023, Ajit Pawar, along with 40 MLAs, left the Sharadchandra Pawar (commonly known as Sharad Pawar) led Nationalist Congress Party and joined the ruling Shiv Sena – BJP government as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. [10] This caused the split in NCP. [11]
Sharad Pawar has had a long period of public life from 1 May 1958 to 1 May 2023. [63] Sharad Pawar took back his decision to step down as national leader of National Congress Party, citing "strong sentiments" his resignation had evoked among the party workers as well as leaders across the country.
The NCP's leader, Sharad Pawar served as the Minister of Agriculture for both five-year terms of the Singh-led government. The party remained part of the Congress-led Maharashtra state government until 2014. [14] On 20 June 2012, P. A. Sangma left the NCP to contest the presidential election, which he lost. [15]
The Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party was a faction of the erstwhile united Nationalist Congress Party that was led primarily by Ajit Pawar. Due to several disagreements with the then party president Sharad Pawar, the faction came into existence. The faction got hold of the party name afterwards. [2]
Sharad Pawar is the supreme leader and his word is final in the NCP, but Ajit had a different vision for the party, which Sharad Pawar kept objecting to. This prompted Ajit Pawar to form a rebellion with others and split the party. [9] The split was also driven by ideological differences, political ambitions, and strategic disagreements.
He quit the INC over a presidency dispute of the party in 1999 and formed the Nationalist Congress Party along with Sharad Pawar and P. A. Sangma, before resigning 19 years after, and re-joining the INC in 2018. Anwar has been appointed both general secretary in charge of poll-bound Kerala and a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
Pawar was born in Deolali Pravara, Ahmednagar district. [9] He is son of Anantrao Pawar, the brother of Sharad Pawar, the president of the Nationalist Congress Party and a four-time former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. [10] [11] He did his schooling Deolali Pravara but dropped out of college to help his family after the death of his father.
Sharad Pawar, who had been a towering figure in Maharashtrian and national politics belongs to this group. The state's political status quo was upset when Sharad Pawar defected from the INC, which he perceived as the vehicle of the Gandhi dynasty, to form the Nationalist Congress Party .