NCP Led By Sharad Pawar Selected PC Chacko As Functioning President
GG News Bureau
Kerala, 2nd June. Senior politician PC Chacko was named the Nationalist Congress Party’s second national working President by Sharadchandra Pawar on Saturday.
Chacko, a former Member of Parliament from Thrissur, Kerala, left the Congress in March 2021 and joined the newly formed Nationalist Congress Party.
The other national working President of the party is Supriya Sule, the MP for the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra and daughter of Congressman Prakash Sule. Sule is the candidate of the Opposition INDIA group for the Lok Sabha seat.
On June 10, 1999, Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar, and PA Sangma created the Nationalist Congress Party in response to their expulsion from the Congress for their disapproval of Sonia Gandhi’s foreign heritage.
Sharad Pawar announced his resignation as the national president of the Nationalist Congress Party in May 2023. He later rescinded his resignation, citing his appreciation for the “strong sentiments” that party officials and workers had expressed in response to his announcement.
A few weeks later, Nationalist Congress Party vice president Praful Patel and Sule were named national working presidents by Sharad Pawar. But in July, Ajit Pawar, the nephew of party leader Sharad Pawar, and a number of party MLAs joined the Maharashtra coalition government, which consists of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena group led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
The Nationalist Congress Party was split as a result, with one section endorsing Ajit Pawar and the other Sharad Pawar. Among the party leaders who supported Ajit Pawar is Patel.
The party’s electoral emblem was named after one of the divisions. Ajit Pawar’s party was recognized by the Election Commission in February as the legitimate Nationalist Congress Party, and it was given the “clock” emblem based on the “test of legislative majority”.
In the Supreme Court, the Sharad Pawar group appealed the election panel’s ruling. In March, the court ruled that Sharad Pawar’s side could keep using the poll regulator-assigned “man blowing turha” and the name “Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar” for the Lok Sabha elections.
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