This is the million dollar question that what is going on in Ajit Pawar’s party in Maharashtra and what is Ajit Pawar himself thinking? The statements he gave about separating from the family and the regret he expressed made it seem that he would separate from the BJP alliance. There were uncomfortable situations about him within the BJP as well and the RSS people were opposing the alliance with him from the very beginning. But suddenly all the discussions stopped. Now it is not being said that he is leaving the BJP. On the contrary, he is talking about seat sharing with the BJP and Shiv Sena and he may get three seats of the Legislative Council during the Navratris.
It seems that NCP founder Sharad Pawar has also realized that Ajit Pawar wants to keep him and his party engaged as a part of strategy and is creating messages for voters. Sharad Pawar has reached the Supreme Court after realizing this. He has filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking that the election symbol of NCP ‘clock’ be frozen. That is, its use should be banned. Actually, after the party split, Ajit Pawar’s faction was considered the real NCP and it was allowed to keep the ‘clock’ election symbol. Sharad Pawar’s party got the election symbol of ‘man blowing a trumpet’. He contested the Lok Sabha elections on this election symbol and won nine seats. But now Sharad Pawar wants that Ajit Pawar should also be given a new election symbol. This means that after Ajit Pawar’s recent emotional statements, Sharad Pawar is apprehensive that Ajit may get the benefit of the clock election symbol in the assembly elections.