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A beaming Pawar Sr personally welcomed the office-bearers, comprising 20 ex-municipal corporators including several women.
An invisible power is actively trying to finish off Shiv Sena and NCP, two important state-based parties.
In an order, the Election Commission (EC) also allotted the NCP symbol 'Wall Clock' to the group led by Ajit Pawar.
A group of people also set ablaze a car parked at the residence of Solanke located in Majalgaon after an audio clip of the MLA in which he purportedly spoke about the Maratha quota agitation and made a veiled comment on the fasting quota activist Manoj Jarange went viral.
Asserting that he was not old yet, Pawar echoed former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's words, saying, "Na tired hu, na retired hu." (I am neither tired nor retired).
A statement issued on Wednesday on behalf of the Ajit Pawar-led faction also said that Praful Patel, who has deserted Sharad Pawar, continues to be the NCP working president.
Only 17 legislators reach Yashwantrao Chavan Centre in south Mumbai to attend the meeting convened by NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
The one-line whip issued on Tuesday by Jitendra Awhad, chief whip of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, said the meeting has been called by Sharad Pawar at 1 pm at Y B Chavan Centre on July 5, and the presence of all MLAs is mandatory.
NCP has 53 MLAs in 288-member Maharashtra Assembly; Ajit Pawar needs support of at least 36 legislators to not attract provisions of anti-defection law.
'Thanks' PM Modi for siding with the same party members whom he had called corrupt.
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