<p>There are no issues within the Pawar family, state NCP president and water resources department minister Jayant Patil said on Thursday.</p>.<p>The statement of Patil, a close aide of the Pawar family, assumes significance in the wake of the NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar snubbed his grand nephew Parth Pawar, for demanding a CBI probe into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and hailing the bhoomi-pujan of Ram mandir by prime minister Narendra Modi - both of which went against the party lines.<br /><br />Parth is son of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, the nephew of Pawar.</p>.<p>On Wednesday night, members of the Pawar clan met at the NCP supremo's Silver Oak bungalow.</p>.<p>Those present were Pawar, his daughter and Baramati MP Supriya Sule, Ajit Pawar, the deputy chief minister and Baramati MLA besides Patil.</p>.<p>"Ajit Pawar is not at all unhappy...there are no disputes in the family," he said.</p>.<p>Added Patil: "Pawar saheb is the head of NCP and family...he has the right to guide, order, instruct and suggest."</p>.<p>"Everyone has the freedom to express his/her view. If he (Parth) has expressed any view, I have not read it," Patil told reporters on the comments of the 29-year-old Parth, who had lost the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Maval seat.</p>.<p>Asked if the NCP will seek an explanation from Parth, Patil replied in negative.</p>.<p>"We do not give much importance to what he says....he is immature," Pawar said, when asked about his grand-nephew's demand for a CBI probe and the Maha Vikas Aghadi's opposition to it.</p>.<p>Pawar Sr generally never speaks about the family - and this is for the first time he came down against any member of the clan publicly. Even when Ajit Pawar joined ranks with the BJP and became a deputy chief minister under BJP leader and then chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Pawar had not spoken about it on a public platform.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Fadnavis said: "It is an issue within the family....between grandfather and grandnephew....however, we welcome what he said, that is the CBI demand for the investigations into the Sushant Singh case."</p>.<p>Adding fuel to the fire, former chief minister Narayan Rane's son and BJP MLA Nitesh Rane said: "Parth lambi race ka ghoda gai....don't stop friend."</p>
<p>There are no issues within the Pawar family, state NCP president and water resources department minister Jayant Patil said on Thursday.</p>.<p>The statement of Patil, a close aide of the Pawar family, assumes significance in the wake of the NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar snubbed his grand nephew Parth Pawar, for demanding a CBI probe into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and hailing the bhoomi-pujan of Ram mandir by prime minister Narendra Modi - both of which went against the party lines.<br /><br />Parth is son of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, the nephew of Pawar.</p>.<p>On Wednesday night, members of the Pawar clan met at the NCP supremo's Silver Oak bungalow.</p>.<p>Those present were Pawar, his daughter and Baramati MP Supriya Sule, Ajit Pawar, the deputy chief minister and Baramati MLA besides Patil.</p>.<p>"Ajit Pawar is not at all unhappy...there are no disputes in the family," he said.</p>.<p>Added Patil: "Pawar saheb is the head of NCP and family...he has the right to guide, order, instruct and suggest."</p>.<p>"Everyone has the freedom to express his/her view. If he (Parth) has expressed any view, I have not read it," Patil told reporters on the comments of the 29-year-old Parth, who had lost the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Maval seat.</p>.<p>Asked if the NCP will seek an explanation from Parth, Patil replied in negative.</p>.<p>"We do not give much importance to what he says....he is immature," Pawar said, when asked about his grand-nephew's demand for a CBI probe and the Maha Vikas Aghadi's opposition to it.</p>.<p>Pawar Sr generally never speaks about the family - and this is for the first time he came down against any member of the clan publicly. Even when Ajit Pawar joined ranks with the BJP and became a deputy chief minister under BJP leader and then chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Pawar had not spoken about it on a public platform.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Fadnavis said: "It is an issue within the family....between grandfather and grandnephew....however, we welcome what he said, that is the CBI demand for the investigations into the Sushant Singh case."</p>.<p>Adding fuel to the fire, former chief minister Narayan Rane's son and BJP MLA Nitesh Rane said: "Parth lambi race ka ghoda gai....don't stop friend."</p>
