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Things will be known at appropriate time: Sunetra Pawar on NCP merger talks
Nov-11-2026

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Sunetra Pawar declined to give a direct response on the speculation of a merger with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), saying that the matter will become clear in due course. Speculation over a merger intensified last week after several leaders of the Sunetra Pawar-led NCP, including Praful Patel and Parth Pawar, met NCP (SP) head Sharad Pawar, who was recently hospitalised for a chest infection.

Responding to reporters’ queries regarding the NCP's merger speculation, Sunetra Pawar said, ‘I know you people are more interested in the other issue (merger speculation). However, I would like to tell you that things will become clear with time’. NCP state president Sunil Tatkare also claimed last week that the merger of the two factions would have taken place in February this year had Ajit Pawar been alive.

Ajit Pawar, the then deputy CM and NCP president, died in an air crash on January 28. Sunetra Pawar subsequently became the NCP head and deputy CM in the Mahayuti government, which also comprises the BJP and Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena.


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