Giving its decision on Tuesday, the Election Commission provided the Sharad Pawar faction with a one-time option to claim a name to its new political formation and provide three preferences to the Commission
The seat-sharing talks are underway for several states and it has not stopped. Every state has its own permutations and combinations. The work is going on, Sule said while talking to reporters
The Nationalist Congress Party and Congress on Friday condemned the baton-charge by police on protestors seeking reservation for the Maratha community.
Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) leader Supriya Sule called the Central Government's decision to reduce the prices of cooking gas cylinders as a 'Jumla'.
The Sharad Pawar-led faction of the NCP questioned Smriti Irani's "silence" over the incident in which a teacher in Uttar Pradesh allegedly asked her students to slap a boy from a minority community.
Addressing reported, the 83-year-old NCP chief made it clear that nobody from his faction would go with the BJP, scotching all speculation on this count in the past couple of days.
NCP president Sharad Pawar has called a meeting at 1pm, while the Ajit Pawar faction, which has aligned with the Eknath Shinde-BJP government will gather at 11 am
This is also the first time in its history that Maharashtra has got two Deputy CMs -- Fadnavis and Pawar -- after a hectic morning full of cloak-and-dagger drama.
The murmurs started in the morning when Pawar convened a meeting of NCP MLAs supporting him, around three dozen-plus, to chart out their future political course.
The duo was closeted in a private meeting for nearly two hours, though what transpired is not known, sparking huge speculation in political and business circles.