India, July 14 -- Five months after Sunetra Pawar was elected national president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), her appointment has been challenged by the party's former national secretary, Sachchidanand Singh. Singh has sought a fresh election, and a declaration of both the presidential election and the revised list of office-bearers of the National Working Committee (NWC) as null and void.

The development comes amid mounting unrest among senior leaders in the NCP over the way the party was being run by the new leadership - deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar and her son, Rajya Sabha MP Parth. The party's national working president Praful Patel publicly acknowledged for the first time on Monday the growing unease in the organi...