Ajit Pawar, popularly called Ajit Dada, is a prominent Maharashtra politician, and nephew of Sharad Pawar, the co-founder of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and former union minister.
In 2023, Ajit Pawar, along with some MLAs, split from the NCP and joined the Eknath Shinde-BJP government in the state. He then went on to serve as a co-deputy CM along with the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis under CM Eknath Shinde. A year prior to this, Ajit Pawar was the leader of the opposition in the state assembly and the finance minister for three years under the then MVA government of the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena. Pawar has a history of defections; in 2019, too, he defected from the party to become the Deputy CM under Fadnavis, which lasted just a few days.
Ajit Pawar is an MLA from Baramati, a family constituency for the Pawars. He has represented Baramati in the Vidhan Sabha since 1995, and previously served as Minister of State for Agriculture and Power, Minister of State for Soil Conservation, Power, and Planning in 1992, and Cabinet Minister responsible for the Irrigation Department in 1999.
Most important statement from Congress which one has to expect from them as a condition of alliance with Shive Sena, even though they are not as worst as BJP, they too indulge in chauvinism and anti migrnat and minority agitations…
Have no love for NCP, but it is Shiv Sena that’s the most uncouth parties of these three alliance seekers. This party of goons that has had a good piggy back ride with BJP should have been shunned by Congress. The passing of the baton to SS scion portends a bleak future for Indian politics.
Despite this claim of difference in ideology ,the truth is that all 3 parties share one common trait, which is their core ideology, viz that a single family must own the party. Shiv Sena like the NCP and Congress is just another in the long list of family owned parties. All parties contain dynasts/families but these parties have reserved top posts exclusively for family members, where outsiders stand no chance. Look at how many Pawar family members are in parliament, legislatures etc. In reality there is no difference in ideology between the parties.