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Maharashtra Polls: What Supriya Sule Said On Reuniting With Cousin Ajit Pawar
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Last year, Sule’s cousin Ajit Pawar and several other NCP MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-BJP government in the state, leading to a split in the party founded by her father Sharad Pawar.
NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule has said political rapprochement with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is not possible till he is aligned with the BJP and said she will not be a CM post aspirant if the MVA is voted to power.
In an exclusive interview to PTI, four-time Lok Sabha member Sule said people voted very assertively in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and there is clarity in the voters’ mind now.
She feels the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising the NCP (SP), Congress and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) will also do much better in the November 20 state assembly polls.
Out of the total 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state, the MVA won 30 seat, and an independent supporting the opposition alliance also emerged victorious.
Last year, Sule’s cousin Ajit Pawar and several other NCP MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-BJP government in the state, leading to a split in the party founded by her father Sharad Pawar.
In June 2022, Shinde had led a rebellion against the Shiv Sena leadership, which led to a split in that party.
Sule said, “It is hard to say whether Pawars can reunite with Ajit Pawar politically. As long as he is working for the BJP it will not be easy. Our ideologies still remain a challenge politically.” On speculations that she could be the MVA’s CM face, she said, ’’I am not contesting elections and the NCP (SP) has made it clear that we are not in the race for CM’s post. We have clarity and we will go along with whoever our partners decide .” Asked if the upcoming assembly polls will settle the fragmented polity in Maharashtra, the parliamentarian said the Lok Sabha election results have settled the confusion.
’’There is already clarity in the state. There is no issue as such except that the legal fight continues because of the illegal way parties were broken, the illegal way they were given to people…the fight will continue,’’ she said.
Sule denied there was any strategy to contest only 10 Lok Sabha seats.
’’Our party is about service and not strategy. We don’t strategise…we are focused on serving the nation and doing good policy work ,’’ she said.
The NCP (SP) is contesting 86 out of 288 assembly seats (as per the seat-sharing arrangement of MVA allies) in the state elections and is confident of doing well, she said.
Sule said there was nothing wrong in the delay in finalising the seat-sharing formula among MVA allies.
“Alliance talks in a vibrant democracy take time, we must be respectful towards allies. We made sure we didn’t bulldoze anyone,” she said.
Sule said she doesn’t see the contest in Baramati assembly seat, Pawars’ family bastion where Ajit Pawar is pitted against his nephew Yugendra Pawar, as anything more than an ideological fight.
’’We are aligned with the Congress and they with the BJP. We are fighting the BJP, so we fight their allies,’’ she said.
Expressing gratitude to voters for giving her the fourth Lok Sabha term this year, Sule said she hoped the assembly polls will be fair in Baramati and claimed people were being threatened by the ruling dispensation.
“People are brave and I will stand by them,’’ she maintained.
On Ajit Pawar asking Baramati voters to make him happy by electing him, Sule said for her contesting and winning elections is not for self-happiness.
’’This is not happiness, this is service for me. My politics is about serving the nation and doing good and serious policy work,’’ she asserted.
’’If I would ask for votes, it would not be for my happiness, it would be for people’s happiness. I want my every stakeholder to be happy. If they are happy, I will be happy,’’ she said.
On emotions at play in Baramati during the general elections and now in the assembly polls, Sule said leaders are not allowed to show emotions in public.
’’If a leader crumbles, how will the family members survive. Being a leader is a lonely job. We have to be empathetic and compassionate in our behaviour but not crumble emotionally,’’ she said.
On NCP’s division after she was made the party working president, Sule said Ajit Pawar held a powerful position in decision-making, and she was ready to debate with anyone, including him, on how can she be blamed for the split in the party.
’I believe in transparency,’’ she said.
Sule said the MVA will get a clear mandate to provide an honest, stable and progressive government to end unemployment, corruption and inflation.
She also said that both (ruling and opposition) alliances decided not to project a CM face. Whether or not it is needed depends on time-to- time, situation-to-situation, she added.
Sule also said the NCP (SP) was not a regional party.
’’We were a national party, we were downgraded and our party was broken illegally and the fight continues in the Supreme Court. What was done to Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray was completely unfair,’’ she said.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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BJP To Go To Delhi Polls With New Chief? Decoding The Ifs, Buts & What Party’s Constitution Says
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Two senior Delhi-based BJP leaders told News18 on condition of anonymity that changing the “face of the party” in January just ahead of an election is best avoided
Will the successor of JP Nadda and BJP’s next national president be chosen before the Delhi election which is scheduled at the beginning of 2025? The answer depends on a number of factors — when the Election Commission conducts polls, how soon the BJP completes its presidential elections and how much time the party is left with in between the two elections.
WHERE IS THE PROCESS STUCK?
Whenever BJP has to find a successor for its national president, a detailed electoral process is kicked off. This was done by the party in mid-October by naming K Laxman as national returning officer, along with three national co-returning officers — Naresh Bansal, Rekha Verma and Sambit Patra. While the BJP has provisions of an electoral college, the party in its history has never seen a contest for the post, which has always been selected with unanimity.
Now that the membership drive is over, various committees will be set up at the Mandal, district, regional and state level. The president elected at every level nominates office bearers according to his or her wishes. While ideally one should wait for all state organisations to get revamped, that would take a long time. Hence, the BJP constitution allows elections once 50 per cent of the state committees have been formed. The BJP has been tight-lipped so far about whether the 50 per cent limit has been achieved, but sources say the search for Nadda’s successor will have to wait a while since the ceiling has not been met.
NADDA’S SUCCESSOR BEFORE DELHI POLL?
In September this year, former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had asked for assembly elections to be held in the Capital along with Maharashtra, where a new House must be elected before November 26. That boat, however, has sailed. Now, Delhi assembly election is scheduled to be held in either January or February 2025. The term of the Delhi Assembly ends on February 23, 2025.
While a large section of the party thinks the BJP is “very much comfortable” spearheading the exercise any day of the month — December 2024 or January 2025 that the “leadership deems fit” — at least two senior Delhi-based BJP leaders told News18 on condition of anonymity that changing the “face of the party” in January just ahead of an election is best avoided. They also told News18 that such views are communicated to senior leaders through the “right forums”.
CAN THEY WRAP UP IN DECEMBER?
News18 has reliably learnt that all state units have been told to get their presidents elected and have them nominate their team by the first week of December. BJP general secretary Arun Singh, who is also in-charge of the BJP headquarters, is learnt to be in regular coordination with state units.
The election office that is now operating out of the 6A, Deen Dayan Upadhyay Marg office is in regular coordination with states and Singh’s office.
Party sources suggest the BJP, in eventualities of supposed inauspicious period, will likely ignore them. The source has cited a precedence from 2023 when the central observers for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh, where the BJP then won elections, were announced amid ‘Kharmas’. The chief ministerial pick was also announced by the BJP during the “inauspicious” period, breaking years of tradition.
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Massive Drama Unfolds in J&K Assembly As MLAs Engage In Scuffle Over Article 370 | Video
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Jammu and Kashmir Assembly had passed a resolution on the restoration of special status, a move that was opposed by the BJP.
A massive drama unfolded in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly as the House resumed on Thursday with the MLAs engaging in a scuffle over the issue of resolution to restore the special status of the Union Territory.
As the Assembly resumed today, Engineer Rashid’s brother and MLA Khurshid Ahmad Sheikh displayed a banner on Article 370, a move which was objected to by Leader of Opposition and BJP MLA Sunil Sharma.
“The resolution was unconstitutional. You broke the rules of the House,” he said.
The BJP MLAs moved to the well of the House and attempted to snatch Sheikh’s banner, leading to a scuffle among them.
#WATCH | A ruckus breaks out at J&K Assembly in Srinagar after Engineer Rashid’s brother & MLA Khurshid Ahmad Sheikh displayed a banner on Article 370. LoP Sunil Sharma objected to this. House adjourned briefly. pic.twitter.com/iKw8dQnRX1— ANI (@ANI) November 7, 2024
The chaos in the House led to its brief adjournment.
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