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.
FOR BJP’S LOSS – ONE AND ONLY CAUSE RESPONSIBLE WAS –
CONSOLIDATION OF MINORITIES,
CONSOLIDATION OF MINORITIES, &
CONSOLIDATION OF MINORITIES,
MAINLY MUSLIMS,
JEHADIS OF COURSE WILL ALWAYS BE AGAINST BJP, EVEN MUSLIM WOMEN MOSTLY VOTED AGAINST BJP, ISUUES LIKE TRIPLE TALAQ DID NOT COUNT.
AND OF COURSE, THE VATICAN RULED HERD IN INDIA NEVER LET AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEAT BJP WILL LET GO, INVEST ANY AMOUNT OF RESOURECES.
ADD TO THIS THEY COULD EXPLOIT MEDIA HAVING IN THEIR NET ON PETROL PRICES.
THE PETROL PRICE HIKES IN OPEN MARKET, THOUGH GOVERNMENT HAS NOTHING TO WITH IT.
OIL PRICES UNIVERSALLY INVARIABLY KEEEP GOING UP DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS IN USA AND EUROPE AS PEOPLE START DRIVING AFTER A LULL DURING WINTER MONTHS. THE BJP GOVT. FAILED TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT. THIS WOULD BE EVERY YEAR PHENOMINA.
MAJORITY, MAINLY HINDU COMMUNITY IN COUNTRY HAS
RESPONSIBILITY, KEY AND A TASK TO SERIOUSLY INTROSPECT, DECIPHER THE PLOT WHICH SURVIVES ON THEIR GENEROSITY AND DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO BE TRAMPLED OR WHERE THEY WANT TO TAKE COUNTRY!
The situation was very different when the BJP and the SS – as also the Congress and the NCP – fought the assembly election separately in October 2014. There was fifteen years of anti incumbency and the warm afterglow of the May 2014 tsunami. The two partners won 122 and 63 seats respectively, more than enough to form a stable government in a house of 288. Coalition dharma seems to have broken down in a matter of months, else the partners would not have separated so soon after the general election. In the state government too the partnership has been exceptionally acrimonious. Of course, the SS’s lifeline is the BMC. 2. If the BJP and the SS are unable to sit down and resolve their differences amicably, this will be a one term government, like the previous 1995 – 1999 edition was. The 42 Lok Sabha seats the two parties won in 2014 will remain a happy memory. 3. One does not have to be an astrologer to predict that the BJP will need allies to form the next government in Delhi. If it cannot carry its oldest ally, one which shares its Hindutva ideology, that dims the prospects of getting others on board.