NCP's Silent Power Struggle: Patel's Warning And The Pawar Family's Challenge | The Maha Picture

Many may not be willing to question the leadership publicly, but in private conversations, concerns about the party’s functioning are increasingly being expressed.

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However, beyond the public exchange of accusations between the BJP and Shiv Sena, it was a social media post by senior NCP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel that offered a glimpse into a different kind of political unease. This time, the discomfort was not within the alliance but inside the NCP itself.

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On October 28, Patel took to X and wrote: “Today’s Vidhan Parishad election results serve as a definitive wake-up call. The time has come for urgent introspection to rebuild trust, realign our priorities, and fix our organisational structure."

For a leader of Patel’s stature, this was not an ordinary post reacting to an election result. The choice of words was significant. When a senior leader speaks about rebuilding trust, realigning priorities and fixing the organisational structure, it raises a larger question: Is everything really well within the NCP?

The electoral setbacks have only added to the existing discontent. The Pune Graduates’ constituency, which the NCP had traditionally considered its stronghold, was given to the BJP as part of the Mahayuti seat-sharing arrangement. The NCP leadership could not retain the seat within its own share. The BJP fielded Dr Smita Jadhav, who lost to NCP (SP) candidate Harshada Jadhav. The decision to concede the seat to the BJP did not go down well with sections of the NCP organisation in Pune. Many party workers were expecting their own party to contest the constituency. The setback in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar was equally embarrassing. NCP candidate Satish Chavan failed to retain the Graduates’ constituency seat, exposing the party’s organisational weaknesses in a region where it had expected a better performance.

Patel’s post, therefore, appeared to reflect a sentiment shared by a section of the party’s leadership and cadre. Many may not be willing to question the leadership publicly, but in private conversations, concerns about the party’s functioning, organisational decisions and direction are increasingly being expressed.

To understand the present situation, one needs to look at how Ajit Pawar had structured the party........

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