Sharad Pawar steps in to end factionalism in Maharashtra NCP

Union agriculture minister and NCP president Sharad Pawar has convened the extended working committee meeting of his party's Maharashtra unit on August 28 in an attempt to reestablish cordial relations between warring party leaders.

Pawar has decided to accord priority to trying to bring rapprochement between warring NCP leaders from different
districts including home minister RR Patil and rural development minister Jayant Patil, who hails from Sangli district in Western Maharashtra, they said. 

Former MP from Nashik Devidas Pingale was denied a second term and deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal's nephew  Sameer was nominated from Nashik Parliamentary constituency,
resulting in a conflict between the two.

Squabbles between minister of state for Urban development Bhaskar Jadhav, who represents Guhagar assembly in Ratnagiri
district, and former MLA Ramesh Kadam continue while the
Kolhapur and Ahmednagar districts are also infested with
factionalism, the sources said.

awar will take stock of the political situation in these districts and discuss organisation of district wise party conventions to galvanise the cadre, they said.

Similarly, municipal elections in Kolhapur and Kalyan-Dombivali and the biennial elections to the legislative council from teachers, graduates and local bodies constituencies in Nanded, Aurangabad, Bhandara-Gondia, Sangli-Satara, Yavatmal, Nagpur, Amravati and Konkan will also figure in the discussions, they added.