There was an ideological difference within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which had nothing to do with the Pawar family, said Baramati MP Supriya Sule on Friday following her first visit to her constituency after the NCP split last month.
Ms. Sule, NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s daughter and a three-term MP from Baramati (in Pune district), was visiting the bastion of the Pawar clan since her cousin, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar split the party on July 2 to align his rebel faction with the ruling BJP-Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena government.
“An ideological difference has arisen within the NCP wherein some of its members may have felt the need for a different political alliance. This has nothing to do with Pawar family. The NCP is not the Pawar family,” Ms. Sule said.
