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'19 redux? Ajit breaks ranks, takes oath as Maha Dy CM
Business Standard
|July 03, 2023
Says will fight future polls on NCP symbol; Sharad Pawar says 'will decide action'
Within 10 days of 15 parties resolving in Patna that they would fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections unitedly against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) suffered a split on Sunday, with his nephew Ajit Pawar being sworn in as a deputy chief minister in the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition government in Maharashtra.
Eight other NCP MLAs, including senior leader Chhagan Bhujbal, the party's OBC face, took oath as ministers at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai in the afternoon. Sources in the Raj Bhavan told PTI that Ajit had the support of 40 of the NCP's 53 MLAs and six of its nine MLCs. This is the fifth occasion - including once in 2019 when he staged a late-night coup only to return to his uncle's fold later - that he has been appointed a deputy CM.
This story is from the July 03, 2023 edition of Business Standard.
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