Nationalist Congress Party (SP) working president Supriya Sule on Friday said her father and veteran politician Sharad Pawar has upset many people by refusing to retire from active politics.<\/p>\n

Speaking at an event in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district, the Lok Sabha MP from Baramati also made light-hearted comments on the 2022 split in the Shiv Sena, whose one faction is now an ally of her party in the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).<\/p>\n

Supriya Sule said she told Dharyasheel Mane, Shiv Sena MP from Hatkanangale in Kolhapur district, in Parliament in a lighter vein that “your party split because your leader did not give enough time (to the organisation and its workers), while our party (NCP) split because our leader devoted a lot of time to the party”.<\/p>\n

When the Shiv Sena split in June 2022, the rebel faction led by Eknath Shinde, who is now deputy CM in the BJP-led Mahayuti government, accused party president Uddhav Thackeray of neglecting his elected representatives and ignoring the party.<\/p>\n

Referring to her father and Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Pawar (84), Sule said he has upset many people by refusing to quit active politics.<\/p>\n

In the past, NCP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has taken potshots at his uncle Sharad Pawar, currently a Rajya Sabha MP, over his age.<\/p>\n

“Employees of the Maharashtra government retire at the age of 58. Most people normally stop their active professional life after turning 75. But there are a few (referring to Sharad Pawar) who, even after crossing 80 years of age and now 84, are not ready to retire,” Ajit Pawar once said while addressing a gathering of party workers in Thane.<\/p>\n

Ajit Pawar and eight MLAs loyal to him joined the Shiv Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra in July 2023, leading to a split in the NCP founded by Sharad Pawar in 1999.<\/p>\n\n

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