Ajit Pawar’s rebel cut up the Sharad Pawar-led NCP final yr
New Delhi:
Ahead of the Supreme Court listening to on NCP’s factional feud over the ‘clock’ image, the Sharad Pawar camp has alleged that Ajit Pawar, who leads the breakaway occasion, “tried to create confusion” in voters’ minds and “unduly tried to learn from goodwill” related to the image. In its affidavit, the veteran politician’s camp has sought the highest court docket’s permission to submit six paperwork to show the allegation.
The Supreme Court shall be listening to the matter right now. The backdrop to the listening to is the BJP-led Mahayuti’s mammoth mandate within the Maharashtra Assembly polls. Bouncing again from its Lok Sabha election setback, Ajit Pawar’s NCP gained 41 Assembly seats and the Sharad Pawar faction managed simply 10. In the final election in June, the veteran’s camp had trumped the Ajit Pawar faction 8-1.
A rebel led by Ajit Pawar final yr cut up the NCP, based by Sharad Pawar with PA Sangma and Tariq Anwar in 1999. Ajit Pawar then joined the Eknath Shinde-led BJP-Shiv Sena authorities with the MLAs supporting him.
The Election Commission subsequently dominated that Ajit Pawar’s camp was the ‘actual’ NCP and allotted it the occasion’s title and ‘clock’ image. The Sharad Pawar camp challenged this in Supreme Court. The court docket then allowed the Sharad Pawar camp to make use of ‘Nationalist Congress Party Sharadchandra Pawar) as its title and a person blowing a trumpet as its image for the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.
The court docket allowed the Ajit Pawar faction to maintain utilizing ‘NCP’ occasion title and the ‘clock’ image for the polls. This was contested by the Sharad Pawar camp, who accused the Ajit Pawar faction of violating court docket’s orders through the use of the NCP title and image with none clarification that the matter is sub-judice. The court docket had then pulled up the Ajit Pawar camp and requested it to subject disclaimers on this connection.