With Eknath Shinde’s rebellion splitting the Shiv Sena and dramatically altering political equations in Maharashtra, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has dissolved its departments and cells with immediate effect.
According to sources, the object of the exercise is to reorganise the party structure following the collapse of the tripartite ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ government (of the Sena, the NCP and the Congress) in the State in which the NCP was a key component.
An office order issued by the NCP’s Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel, who is also the party’s national general secretary, read: “With approval of national president, Nationalist Congress party, Sharad Pawar, all departments and cells stand dissolved with immediate effect.”
