Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar on Friday appealed to the Supreme Court for an urgent hearing of his case, saying a “strange situation “ is arising by which he will be subject to the whip of his politically estranged nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
Mr. Sharad Pawar had earlier moved the Supreme Court against the decision of the Election Commission of India to recognise Mr. Ajit Pawar’s breakaway faction as the ‘real’ NCP. Mr. Ajit Pawar had joined the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition government.
Appearing before a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, senior advocate A.M. Singhvi, for the elder Pawar, said his client’s faction had still not been allotted a symbol.
