Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel has revealed that 51 out of 54 party legislators had given a letter to Sharad Pawar that NCP should side with BJP to form government in Maharashtra when the MVA government was on the verge of collapse last year during Eknath Shinde’s rebel.
Amid political turmoil in Maharashtra, Congress legislators held a meeting on Tuesday where the issue of staking claim to the post of Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly may come up for discussion.
On Sunday, Ajit Pawar led a vertical split in the NCP to become deputy chief minister in the one-year-old Shiv Sena-BJP government, shocking his uncle Sharad Pawar, who founded the party 24 years ago after quitting the Congress.