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Ajit Pawar to be Maharashtra deputy chief
minister again
Thursday December 06, 2012 08:44:36 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
Barely 10 weeks after he quit after his name cropped up in the
alleged irrigation scam in the state, senior Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar will return as Maharashtra's deputy
chief minister Friday.
Ajit Pawar will be sworn-in 9.30 a.m. Friday by Governor K.
Sankaranarayanan, a top Raj Bhavan official told IANS.
Pawar, nephew of NCP chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad
Pawar, had suddenly quit the cabinet Sep 25 after his name figured
in the alleged multi-crore scam.
A top NCP office-bearer said that "the post had been kept vacant
for Ajit Pawar" and it was just a matter of time before he
re-joined the state cabinet.
"There is no doubt about this, maybe in a day or so, but he will
definitely come back to his old post," the office-bearer,
requesting anonymity, told IANS.
The move comes just days after Ajit Pawar got a clean chit in the
alleged scam and before the winter session of the legislature -
expected to be a stormy affair with the irrigation scam expected
to figure in a big way - opens in Nagpur next week.
He is expected to defend himself, the NCP and the Congress-NCP
alliance against the probable opposition onslaught on the issue.
Besides, the NCP is also planning to deploy Ajit Pawar, a
fire-brand speaker in the ensuring Gujarat assembly elections.
His abrupt resignation Sep 25 had created a political storm and
was quickly followed by all the remaining 19 NCP ministers in the
state cabinet also offering to quit, plunging the ruling
Democratic Front government in a crisis.
However, they were pacified by the party chief Sharad Pawar, even
as intense lobbying started to project Ajit Pawar as the next
chief minister.
Days after his resignation, NCP state president Madhukar Pichad
had categorically said that Ajit Pawar was being groomed for
higher responsibilities.
"We will show what a chief minister should be like... Ajit Pawar
will show them," Pichad said.
Party state spokesperson Nawab Malik endorsed the move saying that
the entire party wanted Ajit Pawar to play "a commanding role" (of
CM) in the state.
However, for that the party would have to win an adequate number
of seats in the next Assembly elections, due 2014 to ensure Ajit
Pawar can stake claim to the top post, Malik said.
Out of the cabinet, Ajit Pawar spent the past ten weeks
intensively touring the state amid bitter acrimony between the two
coalition partners.
During the local bodies elections held in the past couple of
months, leaders of both Congress and NCP stooped to new lows,
calling each other's party as one of "goons, scamsters, criminals,
and gangsters" before Sharad Pawar intervened to stop the mutual
attacks.
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