NCP names Dhananjay Munde as star campaigner for 2024 Lok Sabha polls

Maharashtra agriculture minister Dhananjay Munde was on Sunday appointed as the star campaigner of the Ajit Pawarled Nationalist Congress Party NCP for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls the PTI reportedDhananjay Mundes name as star campaigner was announced in a party function by NCP state unit chief Sunil Tatkare as per the PTIDhananjay Mundes popularity among youth and his oratory skills will be useful for the party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections Dhananjay Munde has worked as star campaigner for NCPs various social outreach programmes earlier a party functionary said the news agency reportedMeanwhile Sharad Pawar on Sunday said the Election Commissions EC decision to allot the Nationalist Congress Party NCP name and symbol to Ajit Pawarled group was surprising as the poll body has snatched the party from the hands of those who founded it and gave it to others reported the PTISharad Pawar said that the programme and ideology are important for the people while a symbol is useful for a limited periodI am confident that people will not support the Election Commission ruling against which we have approached the Supreme Court he said as per the PTIThe Election Commission not only snatched our symbol but also handed over our party to others he said the news agency reported on SundayThe EC snatched the party from the hands of those who founded and built it and gave it to others such a thing never happened before said Sharad Pawar who founded the NCP in 1999Meanwhile Sharad Pawar said that the Election Commission recently recognising the faction led by his nephew Ajit Pawar as the real NCP and allotting the partys poll symbol Clock to his group Sharad Pawar said such a situation has never been witnessed in the country and the people will not support such a decisionAjit Pawar walked away with a majority NCP MLAs in the Maharashtra assembly in July last year and joined the Eknath Shindeled state governmentThe EC has allotted Nationalist Congress PartySharadchandra Pawar as the party name for the group led by Sharad PawarLater when reporters at a press conference asked him about the ECs decision on the NCP name and symbol the Rajya Sabha member said he had contested his first election on the symbol of a pair of bullocksThoughts and ideology are more important than any symbol he saidwith PTI inputs