No split in NCP, Ajit Pawar is our leader, says Sharad Pawar

Over a month after Ajit Pawar split the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and joined the BJP camp, NCP party patron Sharad Pawar continues to maintain in an attempt says that there is no conflict between them and his nephew Ajit Pawar and heremains to be their leader. Sharad Pawar also denied a split in the party and said that a split happens when a major chunk of the party steps out at the National level. “There is no conflict that he (Ajit Pawar) is our leader, there is no split in NCP. How does a split happen in a party? It happens when a big group separates from the party at the national level. But there is no such situation in NCP today. Yes, some leaders took a different stance but this can’t be called a split. They can do so in a democracy,” said Sharad Pawar in Baramati on Friday.