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Bhaskar Jadhav elected Maharashtra President of NCP

ET Bureau Jun 15, 2013, 02.12PM IST
(NCP announced on Saturday…)

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) announced on Saturday that former Maharashtra minister Bhaskar Jadhav was elected as party's state president. NCP held its annual general meeting at the Y B Chavan centre in south Mumbai, where Jadhav was elected state president and party MLA Jitendra Awhad was elected as executive president of the state unit.

NCP Chief Sharad Pawar held a meeting of all senior leaders of the party in the morning on Saturday to discuss the state president's election and campaign plan for the Lok Sabha elections. Bhaskar Jadhav was agreed upon by most leaders. Jadhav was one of the six ministers who resigned from the state cabinet and was tipped to be given some senior responsibility in the party. Earlier state home minister R R Patil's name was being suggested for the state president's position.

Bhaskar Jadhav held the charge as MoS in the Urban Development ministry. Jadhav comes from Konkan region where he is considered to be a staunch rival of Maharashtra's Industries Minister and Congress leader Narayan Rane. Recently Jadhav faced criticism from Sharad Pawar for the organising lavish weddings of his son and daughter and spending crores there, while many districts of Maharashtra faced severe drought conditions.