Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Mahesh Tapase on Sunday said the oath taken by nine NCP MLAs as ministers in the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government does not have official support of the party.
Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) On a cool wintry Saturday dawn nearly four years ago, the fledling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) of Shiv Sena-Congress-Nationalist Congress Party was patting itself and preparing to anoint Uddhav Thackeray as Maharashtra Chief Minister. Suddenly, they spluttered on their morning cup of tea when breakfast TV flashed news of a close-door ceremony in which BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis and NCP’s Ajit Pawar took oath as CM and Deputy CM.
NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, Kapil Sibal, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and other political leaders slammed BJP for its involvement in Ajit Pawar's shocker
The splits in the Shiv Sena and now the NCP are the biggest setback for the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the anti-BJP alliance in Maharashtra, before the Lok Sabha elections next year
In a huge political upheaval, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Sunday took oath as the Deputy CM of Maharashtra in the presence of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and existing Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis at Raj Bhavan.