Ajit Pawar, leading a faction of the NCP, secured a significant victory in the recent Maharashtra assembly elections, winning 40 seats compared to his

Seven-term MLA and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar defeats nephew Yugendra Pawar, backed by Sharad Pawar, in the Pawar family bastion of Baramati.

Ajit Pawar leads NCP in Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024, outperforming Sharad Pawar’s faction. A big political shift for Maharashtra's future.

With the counting of votes underway for the Maharashtra assembly polls, the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance is poised to return to power, going past the halfway mark comfortably. Stay tuned for more updates.

MUMBAI: Sharad Pawar's self-proclaimed swansong in electoral politics ended in a damp squib with his nephew's NCP winning more than 4x the seats that his own party could muster. In retaliation for Ajit's decision to field his wife against Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule,

Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, and the NCP offshoot led by Ajit Pawar, have apparently flipped a chunk of seats - over 70 - from their parent parties to the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra election.

The NCP led by Sharad Pawar had the best strike rate during the Lok Sabha elections, winning eight of the 10 seats it contested with a vote share of 10.27 percent. In the Maharashtra assembly elections, the party won 13 seats, with a vote share of 11.67 percent.

PUNE: The passage of time seemed momentarily suspended at Bhigwan Chowk, Baramati's political epicentre as the constituency stepped into a new chapter on Saturday, with Tennyson's words echoing powerfully: "The old order changeth,