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On a day when Ajit Pawar inaugurated a new party office, NCP Chairman Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday that no other group or party has the right to use his image. “It is my right to decide who will use my image so that I can be alive. Those who have betrayed my ideology and ideas should not use my image,” Pawar said.
“The party of which I am the national president and Jayant Patel is the head of state who can use my image. No other party can use it.
Earlier in the day, new Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who was sworn in, inaugurated the new party office on the A5 floor opposite Mantralaya in Mumbai, a move likely to escalate his battle with his uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
After being sworn in on Sunday, Ajit was claiming that the NCP as a party had joined the Maharashtra government and that it did not represent any faction. On Monday, his group sacked the party’s government unit chief Jayant Patil, who is loyal to Sharad Pawar, and appointed Raigad Lok Sabha MP Sunil Tatkar as the head of the new state unit.
Tatkar took on his new responsibility in the party office. Since Sharad Pawar’s NCP controls the party’s headquarters in Ballard Estate, the Ajit camp decided to set up its own office near Mantralaya.
This is a repeat of what Prime Minister Eknath Shinde did after he engineered a rebellion in the Shiv Sena and broke with Uddhav Thackeray, claiming that the Shiv Sena was the original one.
Shinde also set up a party office in a government bungalow opposite Mantralaya.
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