Including Ajit Pawar, NCP files disqualification petition against 9 MLAs

The NCP filed a disqualification suit with the assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar against its nine leaders after NCP leader Ajit Pawar and eight other party leaders united with the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra on Sunday.

“We have filed a disqualification petition with the speaker of the assembly, and we will send hard copies as soon as possible. This disqualification petition was filed against nine leaders,” said NCP leader Jayant Patil.

He further added, “They didn’t inform anyone that they were leaving the party, which is against the NCP. We have also written a letter to the Election Commission of India. We are not accepting this; these nine leaders didn’t inform us before doing this.”

“We believe most of the MLAs will come back to the NCP, and we will accept them again,” he further added.

Ajit Pawar, the head of the NCP, earlier took the oath as deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, joining the National Democratic Alliance administration in the state along with eight other party members in an unexpected development that in some ways echoed the split in the Shiv Sena over a year ago.
All MLAs, according to Ajit Pawar, are with him and have joined the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition government as a party.

“We have all the numbers. All MLAs are with me. We are here as a party. We have informed all seniors as well. The majority is given importance in a democracy. Our party is 24 years old and young leadership should come forward,” Ajit Pawar said after taking oath as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The Deputy CM further said that a few other ministers would be added in the next expansion.

“We took a decision to come with the Shinde-Fadanvis government with almost all MLAs of the NCP. We took the oath, and a few other ministers will be added in the next expansion”, Ajit Pawar said.

NCP Leader Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra’s second Deputy Chief Minister by state governor Ramesh Bais. Ajit Pawar’s decision to join the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis Maharashtra Government is painful, but Supriya Sule, the working president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and Supriya Sule, a member of parliament, indicated on Sunday that their relationship will not change.