<p>NCP (SP) chief <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Sharad%20Pawar">Sharad Pawa</a>r on Wednesday revealed that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was not a part of merger talks between the two Nationalist Congress Party factions, adding that he had no right to comment on them. </p><p>Pawar claimed that NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil and his nephew and NCP chief Ajit Pawar had been leading the merger talks, while speaking to the media in Baramati. </p><p>Deputy Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Ajit%20Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a> died in a plane crash at Baramati in Pune district on January 28.</p>.NCP merger imminent? Ajit Pawar's close aide says 'entire process' was done; talks on with Sharad, Surpiya Sule.<p>Sharad Pawar and other party leaders had claimed that they were in talks for a merger with Ajit Pawar. </p><p>They had also said that Ajit Pawar had finalised February 12 as the date to announce reunification between the rival factions.</p><p>However, Fadnavis had dismissed the claim saying Ajit Pawar would have given him the details of the merger. </p><p>Sharad Pawar said, "I do not understand, what right he has to mention my name? As he was nowhere in the merger talks, he has no right to comment on it." </p><p>Asked if the merger will take place now, Sharad Pawar said that currently their priority is to support each other and then decide how to go ahead.</p><p>"As far as political discussions are concerned, we are not talking to anyone," he added.</p>.Rename Ladki Bahin scheme after Ajit Pawar, says NCP leader Amol Mitkari.<p>To a question on the appointment of Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra as deputy CM after his demise, Sharad Pawar said it is a matter of happiness and satisfaction that she got the opportunity to serve in the post.</p><p>However, he said he did not have knowledge about a memorial being planned for Ajit Pawar on the premises of Vidya Pratishtan, the educational institution founded by the Pawar family in Baramati.</p><p>"I have read about it in the newspapers. There has been no discussion on it yet. We will sit together and decide," he said.</p><p>Notably, Kiran Gujar, a close aide of Ajit Pawar and confidant of the Pawar family, on Sunday said the memorial has been planned on the Vidya Pratishthan premises where the NCP leader's last rites were performed. </p>
<p>NCP (SP) chief <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Sharad%20Pawar">Sharad Pawa</a>r on Wednesday revealed that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was not a part of merger talks between the two Nationalist Congress Party factions, adding that he had no right to comment on them. </p><p>Pawar claimed that NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil and his nephew and NCP chief Ajit Pawar had been leading the merger talks, while speaking to the media in Baramati. </p><p>Deputy Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/search?q=Ajit%20Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a> died in a plane crash at Baramati in Pune district on January 28.</p>.NCP merger imminent? Ajit Pawar's close aide says 'entire process' was done; talks on with Sharad, Surpiya Sule.<p>Sharad Pawar and other party leaders had claimed that they were in talks for a merger with Ajit Pawar. </p><p>They had also said that Ajit Pawar had finalised February 12 as the date to announce reunification between the rival factions.</p><p>However, Fadnavis had dismissed the claim saying Ajit Pawar would have given him the details of the merger. </p><p>Sharad Pawar said, "I do not understand, what right he has to mention my name? As he was nowhere in the merger talks, he has no right to comment on it." </p><p>Asked if the merger will take place now, Sharad Pawar said that currently their priority is to support each other and then decide how to go ahead.</p><p>"As far as political discussions are concerned, we are not talking to anyone," he added.</p>.Rename Ladki Bahin scheme after Ajit Pawar, says NCP leader Amol Mitkari.<p>To a question on the appointment of Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra as deputy CM after his demise, Sharad Pawar said it is a matter of happiness and satisfaction that she got the opportunity to serve in the post.</p><p>However, he said he did not have knowledge about a memorial being planned for Ajit Pawar on the premises of Vidya Pratishtan, the educational institution founded by the Pawar family in Baramati.</p><p>"I have read about it in the newspapers. There has been no discussion on it yet. We will sit together and decide," he said.</p><p>Notably, Kiran Gujar, a close aide of Ajit Pawar and confidant of the Pawar family, on Sunday said the memorial has been planned on the Vidya Pratishthan premises where the NCP leader's last rites were performed. </p>
