KOLHAPUR: A third NCP legislator from Maharashtra’s Satara ★Makarand Jadhav-Patil of Water ★joined newly-anointed deputy CM Ajit Pawar less than a week after being seen siding with party patriarch Sharad Pawar as the latter travelled to Karad and back in a bid to salvage whatever remained of his borough following the split engineered by his nephew.
MLAs Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar and Dipak Chavan had crossed over before Jadhav-Patil did so last Friday
Hundreds of his supporters from Wai, which comprises three tehsils, followed their leader.
The NCP was split wide open on July 2 after eight MLAs took oath as ministers of the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government.
Jadhav-Patil had attended the oath-taking ceremony, but the very next day, he welcomed Pawar to Satara and accompanied him on the Karad trip.
A purported video of the meeting between Ajit Pawar and Jadhav-Patil’s supporters shows the latter setting two conditions for switching loyalty ★financial help to the debt-ridden Kisan Veer and Khandala sugar factories, and a cabinet berth for the Wai MLA.
Sources said Ajit Pawar and Jadhav-Patil held a closed-door meeting after he formally switched sides.
- A third NCP legislator, Makarand Jadhav-Patil, has joined newly-anointed deputy CM Ajit Pawar in Maharashtra’s Satara.
- Jadhav-Patil had initially sided with party patriarch Sharad Pawar but later switched sides.
- MLAs Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar and Dipak Chavan had already crossed over to Ajit Pawar’s side.
- Jadhav-Patil’s supporters from Wai have also followed him.
- The NCP split on July 2 after eight MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government.
- Jadhav-Patil had attended the oath-taking ceremony but welcomed Pawar the next day.
- In a video, Jadhav-Patil’s supporters can be seen setting conditions for switching loyalty.
- Ajit Pawar and Jadhav-Patil held a closed-door meeting after the switch.
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