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The NCP or Nationalist Congress Party was founded in 1999 by Sharad Pawar after he quit the Indian National Congress (INC) along with Purno Sangma and Tariq Anwar. While the NCP started as a national party with values of ‘Gandhian secularism’ and ‘progressive and modern progress’, its biggest electoral success has been in Maharashtra, Pawar’s home state. In 2023, the Election Commission withdrew the party’s status as a ‘national party’ as the NCP could no longer meet the criteria of such a designation.

As of 2024, the party is split into two factions — one led by founder Sharad Pawar and another by his nephew Ajit Pawar. The faction led by Ajit is in power in Maharashtra along with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde). This faction today is knonw as the Nationalist Congress Party, having been granted the original party name and symbol by the Supreme Court. The other faction is called the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar). Other important leaders include Jayant Patil, Supriya Sule, and Rajesh Tope.

Ajit camp meets Sharad Pawar 2 days in a row, NCP chief’s silence keeps both factions on tenterhooks

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Maharashtra: 9 NCP rebels rewarded with ministries, leader & Dy CM Ajit Pawar gets finance

ThePrint Team -
These 9 MLAs, along with MPs Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare, have been expelled by NCP founder and Ajit Pawar’s uncle Sharad Pawar for anti-party activities.

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Shekhar Gupta -
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‘Sharad Pawar making Ajit villain, backed out of talks with BJP many times since 2014’, says Bhujbal

Purva Chitnis -
Newly-inducted Maharashtra minister says Sharad Pawar's many U-turns persuaded him to support Ajit, adds that breakaway NCP MLAs still stand by ideology of Shivaji, Phule, Ambedkar.

’82 or 92…no question of stopping’ — Sharad Pawar responds to nephew Ajit’s age barb

Sourav Roy Barman -
Senior Pawar held NCP's national executive meeting where party's national working committee ratified his decision to expel rebels including Ajit Pawar, Praful Patel & Sunil Tatkare.

Peeved by Ajit Pawar’s ‘sudden’ switch, ‘jittery’ Sena flock meets Shinde, assured all is well

Purva Chitnis -
Maharashtra CM skipped a scheduled function in Nagpur that was attended by President Droupadi Murmu & rushed back to Mumbai to convene the meeting Wednesday night.

SubscriberWrites: Maharashtra politics & its Pawar Struggle

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BJP’s compromise in order to stay in power would be regarded as one of the key masterstrokes in the history of modern politics & might as well be a road map for future political events.

‘I am still effective, whether 82 or 92,’ says Sharad Pawar, NCP expels rebels led by nephew

ThePrint Team -
Days after a split in the party, the NCP’s National Executive met in Delhi Thursday, passed 8 resolutions.

Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar’s battle for control of NCP is good only for BJP, not Maharashtrians

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