Mumbai: After a debilitating electoral loss and a hiatus, Parth Pawar, the son of Maharashtra deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar, is again in political motion, serving to his father strengthen the social gathering’s base of their house district, Pune.
Parth has been visiting native social gathering workplaces within the district, interacting with staff, the social gathering’s former firms and members of most of the people, a number of NCP leaders informed ThePrint.
“As Ajit dada’s son, Parth Pawar has involved himself in backroom management and party building. He is paying attention to the party’s booth-level structures, strengthening booth committees,” Dilip Mohite, an MLA from the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, representing the Khed Alandi meeting constituency in Pune district, informed ThePrint.
Parth had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Maval parliamentary constituency. He was the primary member of the Pawar household to lose an election.
Occasion members ThePrint spoke to stated that whereas Parth used to sometimes attend conferences of the NCP’s Pune unit up to now 2-3 years, his involvement has elevated because the social gathering’s cut up and he has particularly stepped up efforts now, nearer to elections.
The NCP cut up in July 2023 when Ajit Pawar walked out of the Sharad Pawar-led social gathering, rebelling in opposition to his uncle with a majority of the social gathering’s MLAs in tow. Nephew Pawar, MLA from the Pawar turf of Baramati within the Pune district, then joined arms with the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) to be part of the federal government.
ThePrint reached Parth Pawar for remark through calls and messages. This report shall be up to date if and when a response is acquired.
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Assembly social gathering staff, former corporators
Chetan Tupe, a Pune district MLA from the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, informed ThePrint that Parth has been visiting native workplaces of the social gathering throughout the district, assembly former corporators, booth-level staff and even the constituents.
“He plans to cover all assembly segments in Pune. He has been involved in party building, asking booth-level workers about whether they have any issues, intervening to get those issues resolved. Considering there have been no elections to the municipal corporation, he has also been meeting former NCP corporators from the Pune civic body to understand whether the civic administration is taking up issues flagged by them,” Tupe stated.
The phrases of round 24 civic our bodies in Maharashtra, together with firms of main cities corresponding to Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pimpri Chinchwad, Kalyan Dombivli, Nashik, Nagpur, have lapsed over the previous three years. There have been no recent elections to those municipal firms and the our bodies are run by directors.
To this point, Parth has visited social gathering workplaces and interacted with staff in Pune’s areas corresponding to Wanwadi, Kesarwadi, Hadapsar, Sasane Nagar this month. On 6 January, he visited town’s Hazrat Ma Babajaan Dargah and the Bhavani Mata mandir in Bhavani Peth. The identical day, he visited the Kamla Nehru Hospital and interacted with docs there.
Because the cut up within the NCP, Parth has been accompanying his father Ajit to main rallies, and intermittently visiting social gathering workplaces in areas corresponding to Pune, Thane and Palghar.
The one Pawar to lose an election
Parth was on the fringes of political exercise until 2019 when he determined to contest the parliamentary election from Maval.
When he expressed his want to contest the election from Maval, Sharad Pawar was himself seeking to contest from the Madha Lok Sabha constituency, thought-about to be a stronghold of the NCP, which was then undivided.
After Parth insisted on contesting, Sharad Pawar bowed out of the race saying he didn’t imagine too many members from one household ought to contest the election. His daughter Supriya Sule was anyway a contender from the Baramati Lok Sabha seat, which she has held since 2009. Maval, held by the undivided Shiv Sena, was not thought-about to be a particular NCP stronghold. In the end, the NCP misplaced the Maval in addition to the Madha seat.
Within the 2019 meeting election, Rohit Pawar, one other grand nephew of Sharad Pawar, contested and received from the Karjat Jamkhed constituency and finally, Parth pale into the background throughout the undivided NCP.
A Pune-based NCP chief stated there has additionally been hypothesis throughout the social gathering about Parth contesting this 12 months’s election, however there was no official dialogue throughout the social gathering but.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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