India, May 13 -- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sunetra Pawar has inducted her sons Parth, 36, and Jay, 29, into the core group of office bearers. A signed list of 13 key party functionaries was sent to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on April 29. However, missing from this list were names of NCP veterans such as Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse-Patil, Sunil Tatkare, Dhananjay Munde, Hasan Mushrif, and others.

As word got out on Tuesday and insiders began speculating about the omissions, the party chief quickly intervened to characterise the exclusions as a clerical error. In a post on X, she wrote: "A list of office bearers of the NCP circulating in the media has a clerical mistake and will be corrected soon."

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