Ajit Pawar’s entry has triggered murmurs of discontent among Sena MLAs.

New Delhi: Indicating unease in the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) over the Ajit Pawar-led NCP faction joining the Maharashtra government, its leader Sanjay Shirsat on Wednesday said all party leaders are not happy with Vikas and Chief Minister Eknath. . Now Shinde will decide the course of action. Sanjay Shirsat’s remarks come amid a political crisis in the Nationalist Congress Party after Ajit Pawar switched sides on Sunday and joined the Eknath Shinde-BJP government as deputy chief minister.

Along with Pawar, eight other NCP MLAs took oath as ministers on Sunday. Sanjay Shirsat said that after the Ajit Pawar group joined the government, some people in his group were “angry because some of our leaders will not get their desired position”.

“In politics when our rival gang wants to join us, we have to accommodate them and that is what BJP did. After NCP joined us, people in our group were upset as some of our leaders would not get their desired position It is not true that all our leaders are happy with the NCP joining us.”

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Shirsat said he has informed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis “and they will have to resolve the issue”. He alleged that Sharad Pawar used to run the government when Uddhav Thackeray was the chief minister of the MVA government. Uddhav Thackeray is now the head of the rival faction of the Shiv Sena.

“We were always against NCP and even today we are against Sharad Pawar. Sharad Pawar used Uddhav Thackeray as CM. NCP (Sharad Pawar) ran the government when Uddhav was CM… Eknath Shinde Next Will decide the course of action now,” Shirsat said.

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Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has filed a disqualification petition against nine MLAs with Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar.

Ajit Pawar and Chhagan Bhujbal along with Dilip Patil, Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Mundo, Dharmaraobaba Atram, Aditi Tatkare, Sanjay Bansode and Anil Patil joined the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis Maharashtra government on Sunday. Sharad Pawar has expelled his close aides Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare from the party for “anti-party activities”.

“Your actions of supporting Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs who have taken oath as Ministers in violation of the party’s directive and mandate prima facie amount to anti-party activities and will be deemed to have voluntarily given up the membership of the Nationalist Congress Party.” ” party,” Pawar said in a communication that was also sent to the party’s two MPs.

It said, “In view of your actions of voluntarily giving up membership of the Nationalist Congress Party, I formally remove your name from the membership register of the party.” The action of the MPs, the communication said, “amounts to deserting the party, in a clandestine manner, without the knowledge or consent of the party president, which in turn invites disqualification from the primary membership”.

Praful Patel, a Rajya Sabha MP, has been a close aide of Pawar and was appointed working president of the NCP last month. He was a minister in the Congress-led UPA government along with Pawar. Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule wrote a letter to him for action against both the MPs.