MUMBAI, May 13 -- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sunetra Pawar issued a clarification on Tuesday after a list of the party's key office bearers sent to the Election Commission triggered speculation. Her sons, Parth, 36, and Jay, 29, were among the list of 13 key party functionaries that was sent to the poll body on April 29. However, missing from this list were NCP veterans such as Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse-Patil, Sunil Tatkare, Dhananjay Munde, Hasan Mushrif, and others. As word got out on Tuesday, Sunetra attributed the exclusions to a "clerical error". In a post on X, she said, "A list of office bearers of the NCP circulating in the media has a clerical mistake and will be corrected soon." All parties must send a list of key functionaries to the ECI. Top of the list of 13 is Sunetra Pawar herself as the national president, followed by Shivajirao Garje as treasurer, two general secretaries including her elder son Parth, eight national secretaries including her younger son Jay and a national president (youth). While Parth has been named the party's coordinator, Jay will head the national disciplinary committee in addition to treasury-related responsibilities. Amid the controversy, Sunetra's office clarified to HT that the initial 13-member list consisted of office bearers, whereas the national working committee comprising 22 leaders, includes many seniors such as Patel, Tatkare, Bhujbal, Walse-Patil and Manikrao Kokate. Reacting to the controversy, Bhujbal told reporters, "There are certain matters I would prefer not to discuss openly, as they are internal." Later in the evening, state NCP president Sunil Tatkare dismissed speculation about the new list of office bearers. He said: "It has nothing to do with the executive committee appointments. Sunetra Vahini (Pawar) has already clarified the matter, so I have nothing more to add."...