Nationalist Congress Party will contest Maharashtra local body elections alone: Ajit Pawar
The deputy chief minister added that all members of the state’s ruling Mahayuti alliance were free to fight independently in municipal polls.
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Sunday that his faction of the Nationalist Congress Party would contest civic body elections in the state alone, PTI reported.
The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party faction is part of the state’s ruling Mahayuti alliance, along with the Shiv Sena group led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“Even though we are allies in the Lok Sabha and state Assembly, Mahayuti members are free to contest local bodies polls independently,” he said.
The schedule for the next round of local body elections in Maharashtra, including those for municipal corporations and zilla parishads, has not yet been announced.
Addressing a rally in Pimpri-Chinchwad near Pune on Saturday, Ajit Pawar said that his party would field “new and old faces” from all sections of society in the local polls.
#WATCH | Pune | Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar says, "Even though we contested Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha together as Mahayuti...Every party will contest local Body Elections as per their strengths...Therefore party workers in Mahanagar Palika, Nagar Palika, Zilla Parishad and… pic.twitter.com/UGcdihDkE6— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2024
In July 2023, Ajit Pawar and several party legislators joined the state’s Mahayuti coalition government. This resulted in a split within the Nationalist Congress Party, with one faction supporting...
