Raut said history has not seen injustice of the kind that happened with Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray
The Sharad Pawar faction, which lost the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) name gets a new name forĀ for his faction: Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar.
The Commission had asked the Sharad Pawar group to suggest three names of which one could be allotted in view of the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra
The EC made this decision on the Test of Legislative Majority factor which worked in the favour of Ajit Pawar. - Ajit Pawar Faction REAL Nationalist Congress Party: Election Commission
The test of majority in the legislative wing found favour in this circumstance of the case, where both groups have found to be working outside the party constitution and the organisational elections, the poll authority observed