NCP works out ‘deal for survival’; Sharad Pawar may align with BJP, say party sources
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and the parent faction of the NCP reportedly worked out a deal at accommodating one another, which is an effort at ensuring the NCP remains intact.
The parent faction of the NCP apparently has reconciled to the fact that Ajit Pawar has number strength in the Maharashtra Assembly and is stronger in matters of age, as against the patriarch Sharad Pawar.
Ajit Pawar, on the other hand, is learned to be working at accommodating Supriya Sule, Sharad Pawar’s daughter, at the Centre as well as ensuring Jayant Patil, state president of the parent NCP, gets a portfolio in the Maharashtra Cabinet, reports The New Indian Express.
Meanwhile, the BJP is expected to immediately promote Ajit Pawar as Chief Minister of Maharashtra, in order to gain the consent of Sharad Pawar. It is also expected to provide Jayant Patil a berth in the Maharashtra State Cabinet and offer two berths to the NCP in the Union Cabinet too, said a source in the NCP, under condition of anonymity.
Sharad Pawar is learned to have formed a four-member committee of Ajit Pawar, Praful Patel, Supriya Sule and Jayant Patil to discuss the modalities of sharing powers with the BJP. The committee meeting has come up with the new formula of negotiating with the BJP.
Rohit Pawar, Sharad Pawar’s grandnephew, who is a first-time legislator from Karjat Jamkhed, on the other hand, is vehement about not joining hands with the BJP in any manner. “Rohit Pawar has conveyed that he wished to create his own space in state politics by following the NCP’s secular and progressive ideology,” a source close to him said.
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We need to create system in which people's skills get their due: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi Friday called for creating a system in which people's skills get their due and everyone's contribution is respected, as he shared a Diwali video in which he interacts with paint job workers and potters.
Posting the over nine-minute video which features him also having a conversation with his nephew Raihan Rajiv Vadra on YouTube, the former Congress chief said, "A memorable Diwali with special people - I celebrated this Diwali working with some painter brothers and making earthen diyas with a potter family."
"I saw their work closely, tried to learn their skills and understood their difficulties and problems. They don't go home. We celebrate festivals happily and to earn some money, they forget their village, city, family," Gandhi said.
"They make happiness from clay. While lighting up the festivals of others, are they able to live in light themselves? Those who build houses can hardly run their own houses!" he said.
Gandhi said Diwali means light that can remove the darkness of poverty and helplessness.
"We have to create such a system -- in which people's skills get their due and contribution is respected -- makes everyone's Diwali a happy one. I hope this Diwali brings prosperity, progress and love in the lives of all of you," he said.
In the video, Gandhi is seen working with labourers at the 10 Janpath residence and learning to paint walls along with his nephew. In the second part of the video, Gandhi goes to the house of a woman who makes earthen lamps with her five daughters.
Gandhi tries his hand at pottery and makes 'diyas', which he says he would give to his mother and sister.
Since his Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra and his Manipur to Mumbai Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Gandhi has been interacting with a cross-section of people from mechanics and cobblers to labourers and bus drivers.
He often posts videos of his numerous interactions and highlights the plight of various sections of society.
