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Maharashtra assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday ruled that NCP's Ajit Pawar faction is the real Nationalist Congress Party...
"The NCP constitution and the leadership structure of the party does not provide any clue to decide which is the real faction, hence, I have gone by the third yardstick which is legislative majority to decide the issue," Narwekar said..
"The Sharad Pawar faction hasn't challenged the claim of legislative majority enjoyed by the Sharad Pawar faction," he added...
Narwekar said, it was just an internal party dissent and the party was divided between two leaders Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar, going against decision of Sharad Pawar and his wishes is only dissent and it cannot amount to leaving the political party...
The top court had on October 30 last year directed the speaker to decide the petition of Jayant Patil of the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) seeking disqualification of the nine MLAs of the Ajit Pawar group by January 31...
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