Amid banners projecting Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and current Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar as the “future Chief Minister of Maharashtra,” NCP State president Jayant Patil on April 30 remarked that “nearly everyone had accepted that the next CM of State would be from his party”.
Speaking in Karad (in Satara district), Mr. Patil said that it was “satisfying” to note that the next CM in the State would be from the NCP.
“At present, the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and the NCP are getting huge support from people across the State. The satisfaction is that the next Chief Minister of Maharashtra will be from the NCP. This is now accepted by almost everyone. That’s how fast our party is moving forward… I am confident that under the leadership of [NCP chief] Sharad Pawar, the NCP will emerge as the largest party in the State in the future,” said Mr. Patil, a seven-term MLA from Islampur Assembly constituency in Sangli.
