Updated On: 06 December, 2023 10:27 PM IST | Nagpur | mid-day online correspondent
The meeting between Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar at the industrialists home in August was to avoid split in the NCP, Jayant PatiJ said

Jayant Patil. File Pic
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar had a closed door meeting at an industrialist`s residence in Pune in August to discuss the possibility of avoiding a formal split in the NCP, weeks after the latter joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, a senior NCP leader said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
The Sharad Pawar faction state unit president Jayant Patil said avoiding a split in the 24-year-old party after Ajit Pawar`s switch to the ruling camp was the sole agenda of the `secret` meeting, as per the PTI.