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Amid Maharashtra's ongoing political crisis, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will visit Karad town in the Satara district to address a public meeting..
"We will go to Satara where we will pay obeisance at the tomb of Late Deputy Prime Minister Yashwantrao Chavan..
Pawar's address at Karad is set to be the first public meeting after Ajit Pawar joined the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra and took oath as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister on Sunday ahead of Lok Sabha and assembly polls next year and has ramifications for national politics..
The move by Ajit Pawar and eight other NCP MLAs joining the Shinde-Fadnavis government came amid efforts by opposition parties to forge unity to take on the BJP in the next year's Lok Sabha polls..
In a span of a year, the BJP has managed to engineer two splits in the regional parties of Maharashtra--the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Shiv Sena..
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