Pawar meets Maharashtra NCP leaders to plan for state polls

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar today met prominent leaders of his party to discuss strategy for the Maharashtra Assembly elections scheduled this winter.

Besides Pawar, Praful Patel, Deputy Maharashtra Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra state unit chief Sunil Tataare, Home Minister RR Patil, Rural Development Minister Jayant Patil, Minister of State for Housing Sachin Ahir were prominent among those present at the meeting.

Party spokesman Nawab Malik said that deliberations revolved around discussing the political situation in Maharashtra, as well as organisational preparedness.