Mumbai, Nov. 15 -- Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) working president Supriya Sule on Saturday dismissed the possibilities of both the merger of her party with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the joining with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), declaring that she had put a "full stop" to reunification discussion after the death of her brother and former Maharasthra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar. Sule's remarks came a day after speculation that she had met NCP national working president Praful Patel in New Delhi, which she categorically denied. This is also the second time in two days that she has ruled out the possibility of merger talks with the rival NCP faction led by deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar. "I'm repeating this for the last time as I'm bored from this issue... Ajit dada had discussions on the merger not just with me but also with all the senior leaders of our party... Even a date had been fixed. But the day my brother passed away, my party and I, in my own conscience, put a full stop to the issue of reunification. Since then, we have never made any statement on the matter," Sule said. On the buzz over a possible merger with the NDA, the Baramati MP said, "There has been no discussion on joining the NDA. When there has been no beginning, where does the question of a full stop arise?" Ajit Pawar, then NCP president died in a plane crash in Baramati on January 28. The fatal accident took place when both the NCP factions were ready for a reunification on February 12. "Not a single phone call, WhatsApp message, SMS, letter or email has come to me from anyone in the Ajit Pawar faction regarding a merger. Nobody has contacted me. No one has met me regarding this," Sule added. Asked whether the discussions with Ajit Pawar had involved the NCP joining the Opposition or whether the party was prepared to join the government, Sule refused to divulge details. "My brother is no longer with us, and we should not speak about someone who has passed away. I will not comment on this because whatever was discussed and decided was strictly between my brother and me." However, she indirectly indicated that the current NCP leadership is not keen on the merger. A vertical split occurred in the erstwhile NCP when Ajit Pawar broke away from his uncle and party founder Sharad Pawar following months of succession disputes. After Sharad Pawar appointed Supriya Sule and Praful Patel as working presidents in June 2023 and bypassed Ajit Pawar, the latter held an unannounced morning meeting with loyalist legislators on July 2 before being sworn in as Maharashtra's deputy CM alongside eight other NCP ministers in the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena Mahayuti coalition. NCP national chief spokesperson Umesh Patil reiterated that no discussions were underway on the merger....