Pune: Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar Met the Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Power And held a closed-door meeting with his sons Parth and Joy in Baramati on Wednesday. Interaction between deceased members Ajit Pawar The family is seen as an attempt to ease tensions within the larger Power family after Sunetra’s swearing-in last week.
NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar paid tribute to late Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar during a visit to Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar’s residence. (PTI)The morning meeting with Parth and Joy at Vidya Pratishtan, an educational institution, lasted for about one and a half hours. Later, along with his wife Pratibha, went to see Power Sunetra’s house In cooperation with society to mourn the death of Ajit Pawar.
Also Read | Sharad Pawar’s salvo against Fadnavis amid NCP merger row: ‘He has no right’While there was no official word on the agenda of the meeting, people in the know within the NCP (SP) said the discussions included construction of a memorial to Ajit Pawar at the Vidya Pratisthan and inclusion of Parth and Joy in the governing body of the institute where Ajit Pawar was a board member.
Power met with the brothers separately after discussing the institute’s problems with trustees, fueling speculation that politics may be at play alongside their discussions of organizational responsibilities.
The meeting is significant in the backdrop of Pawar’s comments last week when he said he was not aware of Sunetra’s swearing-in as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister — a comment that has caused a rift between the two factions of the Pawar family.
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On Wednesday morning, Pawar publicly wished Sunetra luck, hinting at a possible meltdown.
Also Read | Inheritance from Shadow: Sunetra has stepped into the center of powercoming togetherSoon after Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash on January 28, his close aide Kiran Gujjar claimed that he intended for a merger between the two NCP factions, a task that Perth will now take forward. “With Partha Pawar meeting Sharad Pawar (at his residence after Ajith’s death), the misunderstanding after the swearing-in has been cleared. The Pawar family has decided to come together politically and fulfill Ajit Pawar’s wish to merge the two NCP parties,” Gujar had earlier said.
After his death, several influential positions in institutes and industries held by Ajith will now be reassigned to the family. These include Chairman of Malegaon Sugar Factory, Chief Trustee of Vidya Pratishthan, President of Maharashtra Olympic Association and roles of Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Rait Education Organization and Pune District Education Board.
