Mumbai: Sunetra Pawar, wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, on Thursday filed her nomination as NCP candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections.
Senior party leader and minister of state Chhagan Bhujbal said that though he was keen to contest the elections, he was not upset with Sunetra Pawar's nomination, a move he described as a collective decision.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Sunetra Pawar lost from Baramati constituency, where her sister-in-law Supriya Sule registered her fourth consecutive victory.
“NCP has decided to field Sunetra Pawar for the Rajya Sabha elections. Even I was keen to contest the elections, but party leaders finalized his name during a meeting on Wednesday evening,” state minister and senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal said here.The Rajya Sabha Secretariat has notified ten vacancies in the Upper House, including two each in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra and one each in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tripura.
Asked whether key posts were going to the same family, Bhujbal said Ajit Pawar did not take a decision on Sunetra Pawar's nomination.
“The decision to field Sunetra Pawar was taken by the core group of the party. He (Ajit Pawar) did not decide this alone. It was a collective decision,” Bhujbal said.Vacancies were created in the Rajya Sabha after some of its members, including Piyush Goyal and Udayanraje Bhosle from Maharashtra, were elected to the Lok Sabha.
Asked if he was disappointed at not being fielded in the Rajya Sabha elections, Bhujbal said, “Can you see it on my face? I have learned to respect group decision-making and have been doing so for the last 57 years. Be it Shiv Sena or NCP, decisions are taken after discussion with the people and not according to the wishes of any one person.
Earlier, Bhujbal was keen to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Nashik constituency, but NCP's alliance partner Shiv Sena, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, fielded its candidate from there. This seat was won by Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT).
Senior party leader and minister of state Chhagan Bhujbal said that though he was keen to contest the elections, he was not upset with Sunetra Pawar's nomination, a move he described as a collective decision.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Sunetra Pawar lost from Baramati constituency, where her sister-in-law Supriya Sule registered her fourth consecutive victory.
“NCP has decided to field Sunetra Pawar for the Rajya Sabha elections. Even I was keen to contest the elections, but party leaders finalized his name during a meeting on Wednesday evening,” state minister and senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal said here.The Rajya Sabha Secretariat has notified ten vacancies in the Upper House, including two each in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra and one each in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tripura.
Asked whether key posts were going to the same family, Bhujbal said Ajit Pawar did not take a decision on Sunetra Pawar's nomination.
“The decision to field Sunetra Pawar was taken by the core group of the party. He (Ajit Pawar) did not decide this alone. It was a collective decision,” Bhujbal said.Vacancies were created in the Rajya Sabha after some of its members, including Piyush Goyal and Udayanraje Bhosle from Maharashtra, were elected to the Lok Sabha.
Asked if he was disappointed at not being fielded in the Rajya Sabha elections, Bhujbal said, “Can you see it on my face? I have learned to respect group decision-making and have been doing so for the last 57 years. Be it Shiv Sena or NCP, decisions are taken after discussion with the people and not according to the wishes of any one person.
Earlier, Bhujbal was keen to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Nashik constituency, but NCP's alliance partner Shiv Sena, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, fielded its candidate from there. This seat was won by Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT).
