Maharashtra Family Affair: Will Pawar clan unite or remain scattered?

Maharashtra Family Affair: Will Pawar clan unite or remain scattered?

A few questions first. If the two rival units of the Nationalist Congress Party, one led by the founder Sharad Pawar and another by nephew Ajit Pawar were to merge, what would be the political scene in Maharashtra? Would Ajit Pawar leave the government where he is a power-sharer and a deputy chief minister? Or because he is in power, would the founder’s segment walk his political path and sink its political anti-BJP ideology? These are not irrel…