Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday dismissed hypothesis about his nephew and former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar‘s subsequent political transfer and mentioned no assembly of NCP MLAs has been known as by anybody.

Sharad Pawar’s feedback come a day after Ajit Pawar also dismissed as false the studies that he has known as a gathering of MLAs on Tuesday, amid intense hypothesis in Maharashtra’s political circles about his rising proximity with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Speaking to the reporters in Purandar space of Maharashtra’s Pune district, Sharad Pawar mentioned no matter discussions are occurring within the minds of the media should not there in “our minds”. “…There is no importance of all these discussions. The reports have no meaning. I can say about the NCP that all our colleagues are of one thinking of how to make the party stronger, and there is no other thought in anybody’s mind,” the occasion chief mentioned.

Earlier, The New Indian Express reported that Ajit Pawar’s efforts to turn into Eknath Shinde’s successor as Maharashtra chief minister in alliance with the BJP was gaining momentum with the previous amassing consent signatures from his lawmakers inside his occasion.

“About 40 of the 53 NCP MLAs have given their consent signatures so far. The list would be presented to the governor when the time arrives,” mentioned the newspaper quotes a “well placed source” within the occasion as saying.

The newspaper added that whereas Ajit Pawar was calling up NCP MLAs personally to hunt their signatures, Sharad Pawar did not make any counter transfer but. In 2019, after Ajit bolted, Sharad Pawar had known as up all NCP lawmakers to maintain his occasion intact.

Meanwhile, two MLAs from the Ajit Pawar camp had come out overtly in assist of the chief whilst Sharad Pawar launched a damage-control train.

NCP MLAs Anna Bansode and Manikrao Kokate – each thought-about near Ajit – mentioned they are going to stay loyal to him it doesn’t matter what. Speaking to information channel TV9 Marathi, Bansode mentioned: “I had extended full support to Ajit Pawar even in November 2019 when he tried to form a government with the BJP incumbent CM Devendra Fadnavis. I am still loyal to him and will stand by him in whatever decision he may take in the future.”

Sharad Pawar, whose occasion is a constituent of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) which additionally includes the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress, dismissed studies of a gathering of NCP MLAs being known as in Mumbai and mentioned nobody has known as such a gathering. “The party’s state president (Jayant Patil) is busy with a local election in his region, and another party leader Ajit Pawar is also busy with the work of the party and providing guidance to everyone,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Bal Thackeray) chief and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut mentioned, “These are baseless rumours. I spoke with him (Ajit Pawar) and other (NCP) leaders this morning.”

“If those spreading such canards think that they can weaken the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) by resorting to such ploys, then they are mistaken,” the Shiva Sena (UBT) MP added.

(With inputs from businesses)