Mumbai, May 15 -- A secret informal meeting held recently by Sharad Pawar-led NCP leaders as well as other political figures at a hotel in Pune has revived the possibility of a merger of both NCPs, namely the Sharad Pawar-led NCP and the Sunetra Ajit Pawar-led NCP, after a photograph of the secret meeting got leaked on social media on Thursday.
Significantly, the development has coincided with a recent leadership reshuffle in the Sunetra Ajit Pawar-led NCP, which resulted in Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare losing their senior posts and getting sidelined within the party, even as Sunetra's sons Parth Pawar and Jay Pawar got elevated as national general secretaries as well as members of the party's decision making executive body.
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