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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.

Lok Sabha passes bill to link voter ID with Aadhaar in 20 mins, as Opposition & others object

Ishadrita Lahiri - December 20, 2021

Move will ‘purify electoral rolls’ says Law Minister Rijiju. But Opposition parties as well as BJD & YSRCP, which have backed govt legislation before, ask why the ‘tearing hurry'.

NCP workers in Maharashtra protest against Karnataka CM Bommai amid tensions over Belagavi row

PTI - December 19, 2021

NCP workers also performed milk 'abhishek' on statues of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Maharashtra in protest against alleged desecration of his statue in Bengaluru.

Churchill Alemao, sole NCP MLA in Goa, joins Trinamool on Mamata Banerjee’s visit to state

Ishadrita Lahiri - December 13, 2021

Former Goa CM Alemao said Trinamool will have one MLA in the state assembly 'even before elections' if speaker accepts his resolution to merge NCP legislative group with it.

NCP in talks with Congress for Goa polls, non-BJP parties must avoid vote-split: Nawab Malik

PTI - December 13, 2021

NCP's national spokesperson Nawab Malik advised parties to avoid vote split in poll-bound states and stand united against BJP. The Assembly polls in UP and Goa are due next year.

We need to adapt to changing socio-political scenario: Pawar tells NCP on his 81st birthday

PTI - December 12, 2021

Speaking on the occasion of his 81st birthday, Pawar said the NCP may have a limited cadre, but its workers are committed to taking along all the deprived sections of society.

Mamata sounds death knell for Congress-led opposition, says ‘no UPA’ after meeting with Pawar

Manasi Phadke - December 1, 2021

Sharad Pawar and Mamata Banerjee met for an hour Wednesday, and said they would work towards forming an opposition alliance of like-minded parties for 2024 elections.

BJP will go booth to booth in Maharashtra, highlight how Uddhav govt is ‘damaging’ agencies

Manasi Phadke - November 18, 2021

At state executive meeting, BJP passed resolutions against political situation in Maharashtra. It will hold nearly 20,000 booth-level assemblies to talk about govt's failures.

In 2 years of MVA, Uddhav-Pawar ties deepen but Sena & NCP cadre not ready to be friends

Manasi Phadke - October 22, 2021

Over the last 2 years, there have been at least 8 instances where NCP and Sena leaders have publicly clashed over local issues or acrimonious statements made by one party against the other.

ED moves court against Anil Deshmukh for non-compliance of summonses in money laundering case

PTI - September 18, 2021

The ED launched a probe against Deshmukh after the CBI filed an FIR against the NCP leader on 21 April after ex-Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh accused him of corruption.

NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbal, his son & nephew discharged in Maharashtra Sadan scam case

PTI - September 9, 2021

A special court in Mumbai Thursday allowed the discharge applications of the seven accused, claiming that there was no evidence to prosecute them in the case.

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