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Center-Left Owned by New Generation Media Corporation Pvt. Ltd.What's cooking? Video of Praful Patel visiting Pawar in hospital revives NCP merger buzz
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Adding to the speculation, NCP’s Maharashtra president Sunil Tatkare told reporters that ‘the merger of the two NCP factions would have been formalised on Feb 12 had Ajit Pawar been alive’
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A meeting between Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar and NCP working chief Praful Patel in Mumbai on Friday sparked fresh buzz about a possible merger of the two factions of the party. Patel met Pawar, 85, who is recovering at a Mumbai hospital, and the two discussed the current…
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NCP Maharashtra president Sunil Tatkare has said Ajit Pawar had finalised a blueprint to reunite the two NCP factions by February 12, but the plan stalled after his death on January 28. His remarks have revived merger speculation following Praful Patel's meeting with Sharad Pawar in Mumbai.
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Adding to the speculation, NCP’s Maharashtra president Sunil Tatkare told reporters that ‘the merger of the two NCP factions would have been formalised on Feb 12 had Ajit Pawar been alive’