Who will be the new national leader of the NCP?

Pawar was responding to a query regarding the selection of the party’s next national president.Ajit Pawar, who was appointed as deputy chief minister of Maharashtra in the Eknath Shinde administration on Monday, asserted that Sharad Pawar is still the party’s national president a day after spearheading the NCP’s vertical split. Pawar was responding to a query regarding the selection of the party’s next national president. Sharad Pawar is the party’s national president, have you forgotten that, he questioned.

Ajit Pawar unexpectedly took office as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister on Sunday. Eight other NCP MLAs were also sworn in as ministers alongside him, including Chhagan Bhujbal, Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Munde, Dilip Walse Patil, Dharmarao Baba Atram, Aditi Tatkare, Anil Patil, and Sanjay Bansode.On Monday, Sharad Pawar expelled Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare for engaging in anti-party actions, which caused the internal strife in the NCP to worsen. Patel served as the party’s national working president, and Tatkare served as the organization’s national general secretary.