Dazed after a lightning bolt within the type of Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar`s abrupt transfer to step down, scores of get together staff laid siege on the Y.B. Chavan Auditorium, blocking the 82-year-old chief and his spouse Pratibha Pawar from leaving until he withdrew his resolution. As the shellshocked prime NCP management and a whole lot of staff heard Pawar`s speech and resolution to log off because the get together charioteer after 24 years, many have been seen breaking down, some unabashedly weeping, and most with moist eyes, unable to imagine their ears. Many prime leaders like state President Jayant Patil, senior leaders Praful Patel, Supriya Sule, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse-Patil, Fauzia Khan, Dr. Jitendra Awhad, Narhari Zirwal, Anil Deshmukh, Rajesh Tope, Sunil Tatkare, Vidya Chavan, Dhananjay Munde, and others made fervent appeals, some `begged` with folded palms, urging Pawar to rethink and retract.
For practically two hours, the agitated staff stored up a chant of slogans like “Take back your decision”, “Sharad Pawar zindabad”, “We need you, the country needs you”, “We are orphaned”, et al. They have been in no temper to hearken to Ajit Pawar or Patel, Sule or Deshmukh who pleaded that Pawar Saheb was within the auditorium since 11 a.m. and wanted to go dwelling. “He has to have his meals at specified hours in view of his health needs…Please permit him to leave now… A delegation of senior leaders will meet him today itself and convey your sentiments afresh,” appealed each Ajit Pawar and Patel individually. Unimpressed, lots of the staff threatened to “quit from all their posts right now”, some warned of “an indefinite sit-in”, others gave an ultimatum of “indefinite hunger strike” until Pawar withdrew his resolution.
The drama continued for nearly two hours as Pawar and Pratibha sat and watched helplessly, with no sip of water or something to eat, surrounded by emotional get together leaders and staff from throughout. Reports got here in of sturdy reactions by NCP staff from Pune, Kolhapur, Satara, Sangli, Ahmednagar and different components of the state, with a whole lot of activists clamouring for Pawar to take again his resolution. Both Ajit Pawar and Patel took pains to persuade the protesting staff to at the very least let the senior Pawar couple go dwelling, eat and take relaxation, however they have been in no temper to relent. Finally, with the assistance of senior leaders and his safety personnel, the Pawar couple was guided out of the auditorium, as the employees let off thunderous roars of protests.
Outside the venue, scores of NCP staff, girls and youth activists squatted or lay sprawled on the ground with a relay chant on an indefinite sit-in, and asking Pawar to proceed as NCP chief, and when Sule tried to intervene, they barely allowed her to talk or listened to her pleas with folded palms. Earlier at midday, Pawar, 82, dropped a political bomb when he immediately determined to give up as get together supremo, at a vital juncture for the organisation, the state and nationwide politics. The event was the discharge of Pawar`s autobiography, `Lok Majhe Sangati – Political Autobiography`, coming precisely 63 years after he joined politics method again on May 1, 1960, and has been an elected consultant for 56 years of his political profession. While Ajit Pawar supported his uncle`s resolution, nearly your complete get together stood towards him, making a piquant scenario for the Pawar clan and giving anxious moments to the Maha Vikas Aghadi allies Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT).
Meanwhile, former Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray, together with Aditya Thackeray and MP Sanjay Raut are more likely to meet Pawar Sr. later this night, in accordance with get together circles.As the political situation shifted to Pawar`s dwelling Silver Oaks, the Mumbai Police tightened safety in and round, as prime leaders from the NCP and different events began trooping in to fulfill the reluctant Maratha political warhorse.
