Is leadership tussle in post-Ajit Pawar NCP reaching a boiling point?

Key points

• The differences within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) seem to have reached a boiling point, with two senior leaders clashing before Maharashtra deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar in a meeting of the party in Mumbai on May 26. Senior leader and former Union minister Praful Patel was absent from the interaction, deepening the speculation about intra-party conflict with the Pawars, who are seeing as trying to tighten grip after the demise of Ajit Pawar in an air crash in January.
• Earlier, Sunetra’s letter to the Election Commission (EC) in March had set the cat among the pigeons.
• In the communication, she said any correspondence from the NCP to the EC between January 28 and February 26 (after she took the reins of the party) should not be considered.
• This was seen as a blow to NCP working president Patel and Sunil Tatkare, who is the Lok Sabha...