Maharashtra: I take full responsibility, says Ajit Pawar on NCP’s setback in Lok Sabha polls
The deputy chief minister’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party was only able to secure one seat in the state.
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday took “full responsibility” for the poor performance of his faction of the Nationalist Congress Party in the Lok Sabha elections, PTI reported.
Results of the 2024 polls, declared on Tuesday, showed that the Bharatiya Janata Party along with its allies – Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party – won 17 of the 48 seats in Maharashtra. Of the total, the deputy chief minister’s group won only one seat.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi, comprising former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), won 30 seats.
On Thursday, Ajit Pawar rejected speculation that a few of his party MLAs were planning to defect to Sharad Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party.
“I have always had the support of the people,” he said during a press conference after a meeting with his party legislators. “My MLAs, MLCs have assured me they will always stand by me.”
On a question about his wife Sunetra Pawar’s defeat from the Baramati Lok Sabha seat to sitting MP and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Supriya Sule, Ajit Pawar said that the result was “surprising since I always had the support of the people there”.
Sule won in Baramati with...
