Trouble brewing in Mahayuti alliance? NCP-SP's Rohit Pawar says mass exodus from Ajit Pawar faction on cards
FirstpostTalking to reporters on Monday, Sharad Pawar’s grandnephew Rohit Pawar said that almost 20 MLAs from Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s faction will join the Nationalist Congress Party after the upcoming monsoon session of the state legislature Amid reports of cracks within Maharashtra’s ruling Mahayuti alliance, NCP-SP leader Rohit Pawar has revealed that there is going to be a mass exodus from the NCP Ajit Pawar faction, feeding rumours of the alliance, which the BJP is part of, breaking up. Talking to reporters on Monday, Sharad Pawar’s grandnephew Rohit Pawar said that almost 20 MLAs from Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s faction will join the Nationalist Congress Party after the upcoming monsoon session of the state legislature. Pawar maintained there are several NCP MLAs who have never spoken ill against party founder Sharad Pawar and other senior leaders after the July 2023 split in the outfit. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena-UBT’s Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar last week rejected any possibility of taking rebels back into the folds of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, especially referring to Ajit Pawar.