Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar will take over as NCP national president on Feb 26: Praful Patel
Gondia (PTI): Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar will take over as the national president of the NCP on February 26, senior party leader Praful Patel said on Wednesday.
The announcement marks the leadership transition in the Nationalist Congress Party following the death of Sunetra's husband and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in a plane crash on January 28.
"After Ajitdada, we are in the process of filling the vacuum in our party. We are a separate party, and we are in the process of doing what's right for our party. Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar will take over as the national president of NCP on February 26", Patel told reporters.
Replying to a question about the merger of the two factions of the NCP, Patel emphasised that it's not the right time to speak about the issue.
Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and four others were killed when a chartered plane, a Learjet 45, crashed while landing near Baramati in Pune district.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
