Mumbai: Lower than two weeks after Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar expressed his intention to go on his political legacy to daughter Supriya Sule by making her a working president and giving her the cost of Maharashtra and the celebration’s central election authority, nephew Ajit Pawar Wednesday demanded extra duty within the celebration organisation and talked up his work, pitching for a similar.
Talking on the NCP’s basis day celebration in Mumbai, NCP MLA Ajit Pawar mentioned he didn’t need to be Opposition chief in Maharashtra anymore and requested for a put up to work for the celebration organisation.
“I need to be relieved now and given duty within the organisation. Then see the place I take the celebration. In fact, this resolution lies with the senior management. Give me any put up within the celebration that you just really feel is true. I’ll do justice to it,” Pawar mentioned, talking at Mumbai’s Shanmukhananda Auditorium.
The celebration marked its basis day on 10 June in Delhi when senior Pawar introduced that Sule, Lok Sabha MP from the Pawar turf of Baramati, and Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel would be the NCP’s nationwide working presidents. Sharad Pawar made extra appointments for the celebration’s work on the nationwide stage. He, nevertheless, didn’t point out Ajit Pawar. The previous Deputy CM of Maharashtra was current on dais throughout the announcement and congratulated Sule and Patel later.
Final month, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar had introduced his resolution to retire as celebration president and named a committee of senior leaders to resolve on his successor. Nonetheless, he took his resolution again after protests by celebration employees.
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‘I run administration nicely’
Talking on the Mumbai occasion Wednesday, Ajit Pawar mentioned he at all times knew he didn’t need to work on the Centre. He recalled how he first began sitting on the celebration’s Baramati taluka workplace in 1987, after which in 1991 grew to become an MP.
“After seeing every little thing there for six months I realised this isn’t my sort of work, I ought to return to Maharashtra. Instructed Supriya it’s her work and so she began focusing there (nationally), I began focusing right here (in Maharashtra),” Ajit Pawar mentioned.
He mentioned he didn’t need to be Opposition chief within the Maharashtra meeting when the federal government modified final yr and the Eknath Shinde-led authorities took cost.
He solely grew to become Opposition chief as a result of MLAs insisted and signed on a paper, and the celebration management requested him to take up the put up.
“I’ve labored as Opposition chief for a yr. Some say I’m not as aggressive. What ought to I do now? Maintain their necks?” Ajit Pawar mentioned.
He additionally spoke about how he has a file of working the administration nicely. “I’ve labored in mantralaya. I clear folks’s work with a sure or no instantly,” Ajit Pawar mentioned.
(Edited by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri)
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