While hearing the NCP case, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar said that Ajit Pawar is the president of NCP. While hearing the NCP MLA disqualification case, Speaker Rahul Narvekar says that the majority of the legislature had to be considered while deciding this. Ajit Pawar has 41 out of 53 MLAs.
Rahul Narvekar, while delivering the verdict in the NCP MLA disqualification case, said that majority in the legislature party is the only important criterion. Legislative majority was to be considered when deciding who belonged to the NCP party. Ajit Pawar has 41 out of 53 MLAs. Therefore, in the party fight between Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar, Ajit Pawar has won.
When EC favoured Ajit Pawar
In a setback to NCP party founder Sharad Pawar ahead of crucial Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has ruled that Ajit Pawar's faction is the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). After months of speculation regarding the factional dispute, the Election Commission has finally assigned the NCP symbol 'Wall Clock' to the group led by Ajit Pawar.