Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar Faction)

The Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party was a faction of the erstwhile united Nationalist Congress Party that was led primarily by Ajit Pawar. The faction had come into existence due to several disagreements with the then party president and Ajit's uncle Sharad Pawar. The faction got hold of the party name afterwards.^[2]

Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar)
Abbreviation	NCP (AP)
Leader	Ajit Pawar
President	Ajit Pawar
Chairman	Ajit Pawar
Spokesperson	Amol Mitkari
Parliamentary Chairperson	Praful Patel
Lok Sabha Leader	Sunil Tatkare
Rajya Sabha Leader	Praful Patel
Founded	1 July 2023 (2 years ago) (2023-07-01)
Dissolved	6 February 2024 (18 months ago) (2024-02-06)
Split from	Nationalist Congress Party
Preceded by	Nationalist Congress Party
Merged into	Nationalist Congress Party
Headquarters	Opposite Mumbai Mantralaya
Colours	Pink
ECI Status	Unregistered
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance (National Level), (Jharkhand) North-East Democratic Alliance (Nagaland) MahaYuti (Maharashtra)
Seats in Lok Sabha	1 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha	1 / 245
Seats in State Legislative Assemblies	Indian states 41 / 288 (Maharashtra)[1] 7 / 60 (Nagaland)
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council	6 / 78
Number of states and union territories in government	2 / 31
Election symbol
Party flag
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History

In July 2023, a majority of the elected representatives of the party led by Ajit Pawar joined the National Democratic Alliance government. This caused a direct split between Ajit Pawar and the founder-president of the party Sharad Pawar.^[3] On 7 February 2024, the Election Commission of India awarded the party name and symbol to the group headed by Ajit Pawar. The group led by Sharad Pawar will be known as Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).